ANA CASAS CASAS BRODA (Spain,1965) Lives in Mexico since 1974. She studied Visual Arts, photography and history in Spain, Austria, New York and Mexico. Her work focuses on the exploration of identity, memory and the photographic medium. He has published two photobooks in Spain: Álbum, (Mestizo, 2000), and Kinderwunsch, (La Fábrica, 2014), award for the best edited Art book of 2014 from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport in Spain. Both were made with the support of the Programa a Fomento a Proyectos y Coinversiones Culturales (Program for the Promotion of Cultural Projects and Coinvestments). She has had solo exhibitions in Mexico, Spain, Austria, Germany. Álbum and Kinderwunsch have been exhibited individually in numerous venues in Mexico, Spain, Austria, United Kingdom, United States, Germany, among others.
Since 1983 she has participated in numerous solo exhibitions in Mexico and abroad. Member of the National System of Art Creators 2008-2012. Since 1990 she has been dedicated to organizing study programs, seminars, workshops, meetings and conferences on photography.
Since 1990 he has been dedicated to organizing study programs, seminars, workshops, meetings and conferences on photography. Between 1990 and 1993 he worked in the Photography Area of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. From 1994 to 1998 he founded and coordinated the educational program of the Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, creating a program of 300 workshops per year, including 10 to 12 international guests. Between 2002 and 2006 she coordinates the FotoGuanajuato program, collaboration of the CI with the Centro de Cultura de Gto, carrying out annually the Programa Integral de Fotografía and a festival with exhibitions, workshops, conferences and portfolio reviews. Between 2007 and 2015 he coordinates the Seminario de Fotografía Contemporánea of the Centro de la Imagen in collaboration with the Centro de las Artes de San Agistín, Oaxaca, which combines 11 students from diverse backgrounds on behalf of the CI and 11 scholarship holders from the southern states on behalf of CASA.
In 2012 she founded Hydra + Fotografía with Gabriela González Reyes and Gerardo Montiel Klint, a platform to generate projects related to the medium of photography, which has a gallery space, a bookstore specializing in photobooks, where educational programs, curatorial projects, publications, publication of photobooks, exhibitions, sale of work among others.
Since 2015 she has been in charge of the educational program of Hydra Fotografía, where he has developed different workshops, the central one being the Hydra Fotolibros program, which includes Incubadora de Fotolibros, workshops, conferences and dialogue forums. There have been 5 editions of the program since 2016, giving rise in 2018 to the Hydra publishing house, which has published about 30 photobooks developed in the program. With the publishing project participates since 2018 in important national and international fairs, such as Les Rencontre d' Arles, France, Paris Photo Grand Palais 2018, Polycopies 2018 and 2023, UNSEEN 2018, Vienna Book Fair 2021, Vienna Art Book Fair 2023, Santiago Foto 2020 and 2024, TINTA, Peru, 2019. And award winners such as: Les Rencontres d'Arles, Aperture-Paris Photo Award, PhotoEspaña, Poy Latam, Tinta (Peru), FELIFA, Argentina, among others. The photobooks are part of collections such as Guggenheim Foundation, NY Public Library, SD MOPA, MOMA, among others.
She has given workshops and lectures in different places in Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Latin American Forum of Photography, Sao Paulo, ENCMYK Photography Center of Montevideo, Uruguay, FIFV, International Photography Festival, Valparaiso, Chile, National University of Colombia, GLOBAL PHOTOPRAHIES, United Kingdom, Magnum Foundation, among others. She has been jury of different awards and scholarships in Mexico and abroad, and nominator for awards such as: Paul Huf Award, Foam, Netherlands, Voies Off Arles, Photo Vogue, 6x6 Global Talent World Press Photo, Getxo Photo, Grand Prix Vevey, Staraward de fotolibros, among others. She has been a juror for the Photobook Award at the PHotoEspaña 2015 festival, the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte 2012, and Jóvenes Creadores 2020, among others. She has also curated numerous exhibitions in Mexico and abroad.