Irene de Mendoza is the artistic director of Fundación Foto Colectania (Barcelona). She holds a Degree in Humanities from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a Postgraduate Diploma in Aesthetics and Art Theory from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She has curated several exhibitions, such as Joan Colom. Album (2011); Photobooks. Here and now (2014); The Temptation to Exist (2015), about photographers Christer Strömholm and Anders Petersen; and Photobook Phenomenon (2017), presented at Foto Colectania and CCCB (Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona).