On October 7 a was held New edition of the conference dedicated to contemporary Spanish photography, organized by the teachers Araceli Rodriguez, Celia Vega and Javier Ortiz-Echagüe, of the Research Group in Visual Arts and Cultural Studies of the URJC (GIAVEC).  This encounter biannual It is about dunravel the complex system of creative and professional networks that has made possible the development and the international recognition of work of a generation of photographers in the last fifteen years, with ways of doing things and practices that take advantage of the new technological context, while raffle the usual economic and art system obstacles.

If in the edition of 2022 se dealt with the phenomenon of photographic collectives, This time we have delved into the photobook as an artifact of visual communication. and Creative encounter between photographers, designers and editors. In fact, it has been the preferred vehicle to articulate a good part of the speeches of this young generation that has been found in the specialized publishers and also in the desktop publishing a way of supporting and disseminating your work.

La Professor Nieves Limon, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Has the photobook has been claimed as an object of research and practice at the university. For its part, Jaime Narvaez, designer and founder of the collective The Troupe, and Miren Pastor, photographer, cultural promoter and organizer de Photobook fever (The First festival in Spain specializing in photobooks) have addressed the creative synergies in the development of this type of visual projects. Projects that, in most cases, They come to light thanks to the support of specialized publishers. Laura Carrascosa, founder of Comisura Editions, y Montse Puig, founder of Anómalas Editions, They have explained the particularities of his work as editors in the commitment and support of singular discourses.

El High-performance Research Group in Visual Arts and Cultural Studies of the URJC (GIAVEC) is formed by a group of teachers and researchers from the Faculty of Arts and Humanitieswhose lines of investigation converge in the cinema, Visual Media, the photography and the sequential art.