Photoconsortium’s Steering Committee is currently composed of 12 elected members. The current group was elected in October 2024 and will run the mandate for 5 years. The Steering Committee is appointed to discuss and decide on the guidelines for the implementation of the statutary tasks of Photoconsortium, on the actions to be taken and on the criteria to be considered for the achievement and implementation of the goals of the Association.
Members in alphabetical order:
John Balean (UK)
John holds a Bachelor of Arts in the Visual Arts and a major in Photography. At TopFoto he is the Operations Manager co-ordinating European projects. He has given lectures and written about the picture industry with a specific interest on Press Photographic History.
Vera Chiquet (CH)
Vera is the Deputy Head in the Department of Digital Humanities at the University of Basel since 2021. She focuses her research on scholarly investigation in humanities, using computational and experimental methods to explore visual and social processes. She is the founder of the Swiss initiative DHCH, and with her startup Virtual Culture she’s supporting numerous digital private and public research projects.
Peter Fornaro (CH)
Peter is Professor at the University of Basel focusing on visual media and the linking of digital infrastructures with digital curation and collection management. As a trained scientific photographer, he experienced the change of the photographic image from the analogue to the digital domain in detail.
Antonella Fresa (IT)
Antonella is working on European projects since the nineties. Since 2002, she is technical coordinator and communication manager of national and European projects in the domains of digital cultural heritage, creativity and co-creation, citizen science, smart cities, digital preservation and e-infrastructures.
Frank Golomb (DE)
Frank is the founder of United Archives. He holds a diploma in Business Economics from Cologne University since 1991 and founded his first company in 1989. Since 2008 he has focussed on the acquisition of photographer lifeworks and press photo archives to preserve them from being forgotten.
David Iglésias Franch (ES)
David is the Head of Department of Photography and Audiovisual Records at Girona City Council. He is the Chair of the Expert Group in Photographic and Audiovisual Archives of the International Council on archives (ICA). He is Director and teacher of the Graduate Diploma in Management, Preservation and Dissemination of Photographic Archives (UAB).
Marinos Ioannides (CY)
Marinos is since the 1st of January 2013 the director of the Digital Heritage Research lab at the Cyprus University of Technology in Limassol. He was involved as coordinator and participant in several European projects in digital cultural heritage and his pioneering work, especially in the field of 3D digitization of tangible heritage, is widely recognized.
Pilar Irala Hortal (ES)
Pilar is Tenured Professor of Visual Culture, Contemporary Art and Photography at the University of San Jorge in Zaragoza, and the Manager of the Jalón Ángel’s Photographic Archive. Her research focus is on the relationships between photography, rhetoric and visual narrative and on historical-photographic heritage.
Ismo Malinen (FI)
Ismo is an experienced heritage professional who has been working with museum collections and exhibitions at the different departments of the Museovirasto (Finnish Heritage Agency) since 1999. Since 2012 he has been Head of Picture collections, which is the biggest cultural historical picture collection in Finland with over 22 million images.
Pietro Masi (IT)
Pietro, master of art, is expert in dissemination and strategic planning, marketing, traditional and multimedia communication, organisation of events. Editor in Chief of the www.digitalmeetsculture.net online magazine and executive director of several multimedia productions, he is expert in successful dissemination and social media actions for EC projects.
Frederik Temmermans (BE)
Frederik is a researcher at the Department of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and imec, and an active member of the JPEG standardization committee. His research focuses on image processing, interoperable access to image data and image search.
Fred Truyen (BE)
Fred is Professor at the Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven where he is in charge of the mediaLab CS Digital. He publishes on Digitization, Photography and E-Learning. He is involved in many projects on Open Educational Resources and on Europeana. His main research focus is the digital transformation roadmap for Cultural Heritage Institutions.
