Discovery Award 2024

Based between Finland and Portugal, she is an art historian, curator and freelance writer. She was director of the Finnish Museum of Photography and a researcher at the Finnish National Gallery. In 2023, she curated the Nordic photography exhibition Søsterskap at the ‘Rencontres d’Arles’ photography festival. This year, she is the artistic director of Encontros da Imagem.

Curator, teacher, researcher and editor from Galicia, Spain. He is co-founder and coordinator of the Galicia Contemporary Photography Award and artistic director of the Autumn Photography Association. He was the coordinator of Lab_in Gallery and director of Galeria Sargadelos (Galicia). He has curated photography festivals such as Encontros da Imagem, Imago Lisboa, f/est Amarante (Portugal) and Photoalicante, among others.

A photographer by training, Paulo’s professional career covers a wide variety of functions linked to contemporary art. From 2014 to 2020, director of the Estudio Tigomigo art gallery, in Terrassa (Barcelona). Since 2017 he has been a regular programmer and curator for public organizations and private entities in Catalonia, with more than a hundred exhibitions presented to date. In 2019 he promoted the creation of the Emotiva photography festival and directed the 2021 and 2022 editions. Since 2023 he has been the artistic director of Álbum, Festival of Image and Contemporary Photography. Member of the Council of Culture of the city of Terrassa, jury of various awards and scholarships and teaching. His interests include the diversity of artistic languages, shared creative processes and the dialogues that the works establish with the space they inhabit, specializing in the use of historical heritage spaces for exhibition proposals.