Monica Allende is an independent curator, artistic director, consultant and educator. She is the Blues Skies Project curator, a multidisciplinary project with artists Anton Kusters and Ruben Samama, recently shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. She was GetxoPhoto International Image Festival artistic director from 2017 to 2019 and is now the artistic director of Landskrona Foto Festival. She has also collaborated with WeTransfer as a consultant and creative producer, as well as the director of FORMAT17 International Photography Festival.