Activities that
build community.
Meetings, talks and presentations that make Fiebre a lively and participatory space. An opportunity to discover new voices, listen to established authors, and share the passion for the photobook in a welcoming, open environment for all ages.
OFFFiebre
Meeting at the Reina Sofía Museum Library
Off page 1. Anomalous publicationsFuera de página (Off Page) is a new line of activities that offers encounters with figures from the worlds of art, publishing, collecting, and distribution who work on the margins of contemporary publishing, with the aim of exploring books and documents as spaces and media for artistic creation.
In this first edition, Jorge Gronemeyer presents a critical and chronological review of what he calls “anomalous publications,” based on a selection of materials preserved in the Gronemeyer-Nyrar collection.
Jorge Gronemeyer (Gronefot Editorial)
Editor, designer, and photographer. Master’s degree in Photography, Art, and Technique from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and a bachelor’s degree in Art from the University of Playa Ancha, Valparaíso. Since 1993, he has developed artistic and curatorial projects, as well as teaching at various universities. In 2009, he founded the Gronefot fine art printing and publishing workshop together with Mónica Nyrar, and in 2015 he created the publishing house of the same name. Since 2018, he has been promoting Sala de Máquinas, an independent platform dedicated to the reflection, production, and dissemination of the photographic image in the field of visual arts and publications.
Editorial Constellations – Connection with the European Network
The festival kicks off by focusing on self-care as a creative driving force and the strength of international networks.
Swiss photographer Yann Gross curates a series of talks that invite us to peek behind the covers of each photobook: those conversations, decisions and experiences that usually remain invisible to the public. In dialogue with editor Lea Tyrallová and four leading European publishers, the sessions will address editorial decision-making processes, the relationship between artist and editor, and the current challenges of production, distribution and sales. A space for reflection to rethink management models, sustainability and care in contemporary editorial practice. The day will conclude on the terrace with a BookJockey session led by Yann Gross himself, a hybrid format between page-turning, music and live experimentation.
Editorial Constellations I
What Deserves to Be a Book? Editorial Decisions and the Editor’s PerspectiveEvery week, publishers receive dozens of publication proposals. But what makes a project worthy of becoming a book? What criteria guide the decision to publish, from the conceptual to the financial? An unfiltered conversation to understand the logic, intuition and limitations that shape today’s world of photobook publishing.
Lea Tyrallová
Slovak artist and photo editor based in Barcelona since 2009. For nine years she was Head of Production at RM publishing house, where she worked on projects such as *The Jungle Book* by Yann Gross. Her work combines editorial management with artistic practice.
Yann Gross
Yann Gross is a Swiss visual artist. His work explores cultural hybridizations and our relationship with the natural world. With projects developed in Europe, South America and Africa, he has published several landmark photobooks, and his work—recognized with international awards such as the Arles Dummy Book Award—is regularly exhibited worldwide.
Publishing Constellations II
Shaping the photobook: editorial visions, collaboration, and material realitiesThis panel discussion brings together five publishers whose visions and methodologies reflect the richness of the current photobook landscape. The conversation will address how editorial lines are defined, how relationships with artists are built, and how practical factors such as design, production, and funding models influence the final result. It will be moderated by Yann Gross with simultaneous translation EN↔ES.
Tommaso Parrillo (Witty Books)
Stefano Stoll (Images Vevey)
Jan Wenzel (Spector Books)
Gloria Wismer (Loose Joints)
Yann Gross
Yann Gross is a Swiss visual artist. His work explores cultural hybridizations and our relationship with the natural world. With projects developed in Europe, South America and Africa, he has published several landmark photobooks, and his work—recognized with international awards such as the Arles Dummy Book Award—is regularly exhibited worldwide.
Publishing Constellations III
BookJockey SessionTo close the European cycle, Yann Gross will mix a selection of key photobooks from his career as a photographer and references when editing his own books. With this session, viewers will be able to explore the narrative and expressive possibilities of the photobook, approaching his publishing universe in a playful and unique way.
Yann Gross
Yann Gross is a Swiss visual artist. His work explores cultural hybridizations and our relationship with the natural world. With projects developed in Europe, South America and Africa, he has published several landmark photobooks, and his work—recognized with international awards such as the Arles Dummy Book Award—is regularly exhibited worldwide.
Interzona – Chilean independent edition
The cycle dedicated to independent publishing in Chile opens the festival to other ways of creating and inhabiting the ecosystem of editing, publishing, selling, and distributing photobooks and fanzines.
Coordinated by Gonzalo Golpe, it is conceived as an interzone enabled in a specific space and time with the desire to promote exchange and mixing. With this initiative, Fiebre Photobook Fest delves into the editorial interactions of a Spanish-speaking community that embraces the photobook as a cultural device that transcends the idea of an object to open up to practices, discourses, and the possibilities of transformation of the medium itself. The day’s program is rounded off with presentations, screenings, signings, and meetings that invite you to be surprised by new narratives, connect with different ways of doing things, and broaden your view of the publishing ecosystem, inviting you to leave with your backpack full of ideas, inspiration, and, of course, new photobooks.
Interzone Cycle I
Chilean political photobookA journey through the political dimension of the Chilean photobook, from its origins to the context of the Social Outburst.
Jorge Gronemeyer (Gronefot Editorial)
Editor, designer, and photographer. Master’s degree in Photography, Art, and Technique from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and a bachelor’s degree in Art from the University of Playa Ancha, Valparaíso. Since 1993, he has developed artistic and curatorial projects, as well as teaching at various universities. In 2009, he founded the Gronefot fine art printing and publishing workshop together with Mónica Nyrar, and in 2015 he created the publishing house of the same name. Since 2018, he has been promoting Sala de Máquinas, an independent platform dedicated to the reflection, production, and dissemination of the photographic image in the field of visual arts and publications.
Gonzalo Golpe
Independent editor and lecturer, with a degree in Hispanic Philology and a diploma in Text Editing and Publishing from the University of Deusto. A specialist in desktop publishing and graphic production, he teaches classes on visual language, project management and photobook editing at various schools. As an editor, he collaborates with foundations, museums and publishing houses, as well as directly with authors, developing all kinds of art publications, especially photobooks. He has also participated in the development of digital applications, author websites and exhibition projects.
Interzone Cycle II
Opening the wound, resisting boredom. A look at contemporary photobooks in ChileOver the last fifteen years, Chilean photography has seen the emergence of a vibrant and diverse independent publishing scene that challenges the limits established by the country’s own photographic history. Publications that traverse anguish, pain, and uncertainty, and that from an intimate perspective propose new ways of thinking about the collective.
Felipe Muñoz
Photographer and photography researcher. He is a journalist with a degree in Social Communication from the University of La Serena and a Master’s degree in Art Theory and History from the University of Chile. He works as a teacher, curator, and freelance editor for contemporary art projects and is the founder of Letargo Editorial. He is currently an academic at the Faculty of Architecture, Animation, Design, and Construction at the University of Las Américas in Santiago, Chile.
Gonzalo Golpe
Independent editor and lecturer, with a degree in Hispanic Philology and a diploma in Text Editing and Publishing from the University of Deusto. A specialist in desktop publishing and graphic production, he teaches classes on visual language, project management and photobook editing at various schools. As an editor, he collaborates with foundations, museums and publishing houses, as well as directly with authors, developing all kinds of art publications, especially photobooks. He has also participated in the development of digital applications, author websites and exhibition projects.
Interzone Cycle III
Independent Chilean editionDebate on the situation of photobook publishing in Chile.
Aribel González (Buen Lugar)
Independent publisher dedicated to the publication of photobooks and zines. Interested in photographic narrative in the publishing medium, its publications cover a wide range of uses of the photographic image at an authorial level. Founded in 2014, it works mainly with contemporary Chilean photography.
Fernando Rivera (Ediciones Challa)
Javiera Novoa (Editorial Colección del Metalibro)
Katalina Cortés (Letargo Editorial)
Gonzalo Golpe
Independent editor and lecturer, with a degree in Hispanic Philology and a diploma in Text Editing and Publishing from the University of Deusto. A specialist in desktop publishing and graphic production, he teaches classes on visual language, project management and photobook editing at various schools. As an editor, he collaborates with foundations, museums and publishing houses, as well as directly with authors, developing all kinds of art publications, especially photobooks. He has also participated in the development of digital applications, author websites and exhibition projects.
Interzone Cycle IV
Independent Chilean managementOrganizational models and sustainability of self-managed initiatives.
Javier Godoy (StgoFoto)
Photographer, editor, and cultural manager. Director of StgoFoto and the Flach Gallery, where he promotes projects related to the dissemination, training, and exhibition of contemporary photography.
Francisca P. Burgos (Faczine)
A Spain-based platform dedicated to promoting contemporary Chilean photography in photobook and fanzine format within Europe. Directed by Verónica Garay and Francisca P. Burgos.
Juan Valbuena (Phree + Mula de Papel + FIFV)
Gonzalo Golpe
Independent editor and lecturer, with a degree in Hispanic Philology and a diploma in Text Editing and Publishing from the University of Deusto. A specialist in desktop publishing and graphic production, he teaches classes on visual language, project management and photobook editing at various schools. As an editor, he collaborates with foundations, museums and publishing houses, as well as directly with authors, developing all kinds of art publications, especially photobooks. He has also participated in the development of digital applications, author websites and exhibition projects.
Editing from the institution
The role of institutions in publishing, disseminating, and supporting photobooksMónica Carabias (Centro Nacional de Fotografía)
Director of the National Photography Center. Her research and teaching career at the UCM, as well as her curatorial work, has focused on the history of photography in Spain and the role of women in photographic creation and development.
Samuel Salgado Tello (Cenfoto-UDP)
Director of Cenfoto-UDP, a Chilean space dedicated to archiving, training, production, and dissemination of photography, with extensive experience in educational and visual research projects.
Véronique Gilles de la Londe (Casa de Velázquez)
Ane Abalde (Kutxa Fundazioa)
Directora de Arte y Patrimonio de Kutxa Fundazioa
Talking Books
Express format where a selection of authors present their most recent publications.Presentations by: Paula Artés, Ricardo Cases, Virginia Villacisla, Elena de la Rua, Anna Galí, Cristian Ochoa, Julián Barón, Angélica de la Llave, Eduardo Nave and Lucía Antebi.
Olmo González
Cultural communicator and photographer. Specializing in the management and dissemination of photography projects, he is a founding member of Fiebre Photobook.
Milestones that leave their mark and what lies ahead
On Sunday, we will conclude this edition with a very special program.
We will start with an immersive experience in which photobooks come to life on the big screen. We will continue with the presentation of international programs and calls for entries that promote the publication and dissemination of photobooks. And as a grand finale, the presentations of the Cosecha 2025 mock-ups will give voice to authors who share their projects in progress, those seeds that anticipate the photobooks of tomorrow. An inspiring closing for the 12th edition, reflecting the diversity and vitality of contemporary publishing, in keeping with the spirit of this edition: cultivating self-care and international networks as the basis for a healthier and more sustainable publishing ecosystem.
Cinebooks
Photobooks in FlowPresentation of 20 short films created from photobooks and photographic archives, exploring new narrative forms between books and cinema, in collaboration with the 1st RAMA Festival. Hybrid and sensory works where images and sounds evoke memories and emotions that will travel through Brazil, Colombia, and Portugal.
Ângela Berlinde
Portuguese-Brazilian artist, curator, and researcher specializing in photobooks and hybrid narratives combining photography, sound, and film. She is co-founder of the Encontros da Imagem festival, director of the SOLAR Photofestival, and coordinator of the RAMA Editorial Residency, among other projects. She is the curator of the exhibition.
Nieves Limón
Professor and researcher specializing in contemporary photography, with experience in curatorial projects and critical analysis of the photographic medium.
Grants & Publishing
International programs and calls for submissions to publish and distribute photobooksA review of different opportunities for supporting the publication and distribution of photobooks internationally, with examples and first-hand experiences from those who promote these programs.
Silvia Barbisan (CESURA)
Tiago Casanova (Intergalactica)
A platform that promotes art books and cultural participation through artist residencies, workshops, open talks, and exhibitions. Its work fosters international dialogue and collaboration between photographers, curators, and designers, shaping projects that combine materiality, visual narrative, and digital dissemination.