A co-founder of independent photobook publisher Ediciones Posibles, he has developed a distinguished career in teaching, editing and artistic practice connected with photography. He has taught workshops and given lectures at institutions including Universitat Pompeu Fabra, EINA, La Massana, Fundació Joan Miró, the Toni Catany International Photography Centre and the Centro de Fotografía de Montevideo. He teaches the postgraduate programme in photographic project creation at the Institut d'Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya and is part of the teaching team for Blackkamera's advanced photographic projects course. He also leads workshops in visual storytelling and photobook creation at his own studio. He sits on the advisory committee of the iStar Photobook Dummy Award, organised by the Photographic Social Vision Foundation. His editorial work has received national and international recognition, including PHotoEspaña's photobook of the year award, an honourable mention at the Prix du Livre Arles and selection as a finalist in the Aperture Photobook Award.

Editing is as important as taking photographs. An author defines themselves by deciding what belongs to them and what does not, presenting those answers to the world. For those of us who live with doubt, this is the hardest part: showing everyone who we are when we often do not know ourselves. Fortunately, the journey teaches you a few things about yourself, only for you to discover at the next crossroads that you have forgotten them and must make the journey again. In my case, I always circle between what is close to me and silence. David is an approachable person who is very easy to communicate with—an important quality when author and editor negotiate an edit.

Rafa Badia is a photographer, picture editor and teacher specialising in photographic storytelling and documentary photography. He graduated in Information Sciences (Audiovisual Communication) from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1987. His professional career has centred on photography, working as a photographer, picture editor for publications and lecturer at photography schools and universities in Spain. He has lived in Barcelona since 1994. A co-founder of Calle 35, Spain's first street photography collective, Rafa is an excellent choice if your project focuses on street photography. Between 1991 and 2006, he worked as a picture editor for leading travel magazines—Viajes National Geographic, Altaïr, Descubrir and Descobrir Catalunya—and for the El País/Aguilar travel guides. Since the early 2000s, he has edited photographs for hundreds of features and documentary projects intended for the press, photobooks and websites. He has been active as a teacher, photography theorist and speaker since 2002. He teaches courses and workshops in photojournalism, new documentary photography, photographic storytelling, photography history, picture editing, travel photography and street photography at Grisart Escola Fotografia Barcelona, the Institut d'Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya, Ruido in Barcelona and Blackkamera in Bilbao. Throughout his career, he has given dozens of lectures and written essays on documentary photography, collected in the Ventanas de Papel project (2010–2020).

Ana Benavent is a visual artist whose practice began with photography as a way of preserving personal moments, later developing into a means of expressing what cannot be put into words. She teaches photography in Barcelona at institutions including the Universitat de Barcelona, El Observatorio and Centre Cívic Can Basté. Her teaching prioritises photography as a process beyond producing formally attractive images. She approaches workshops as spaces for exploration and the development of an individual perspective, sharing her experience and understanding of photography as a tool for enquiry and self-knowledge. She also curates the Photobook Market at Art Photo Bcn. Together with Arnau Sidera and Gerard Soler, she belongs to the Can Grapes fanzines collective. She has found the fanzine to be an ideal format for self-publishing projects and a valuable creative and educational tool.

A journalist by profession, Leire Etxazarra's passion for photography has made her a leading voice in Spain's photobook culture. Through her blog Cartier Bresson no es un Reloj and the podcast she produces with photographer Inma Barrio, she regularly shares new photobook releases. In recent years, she has also collaborated on editing projects that reflect her personal interests.

He holds an advanced vocational qualification in Fine Arts and Design, specialising in Photography, from Valencia's Escola d'Art i Superior de Disseny. In 2005, he co-founded the contemporary photography collective NOPHOTO with thirteen other artists. The following year, the collective received the ARCO and PHotoEspaña 06 Revelation awards. In 2014, he co-founded the publication DÚO with four other editors. In 2016, he created and coordinated the project El Diari Indultat, and in 2020 he also created and coordinated the book Tiempo Detenido. Memoria fotográfica del confinamiento. Since 2001, he has regularly contributed to national and international editorial publications. His work is represented by Galería Daniel Cuevas in Madrid and Galería Juan Silió in Santander. His awards and grants include those from the Colegio de España in Paris, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Casa de Velázquez, Colección CAM and La Caixa's FOTOPRES programme; the Autores en Selección award at Fotonoviembre; the Fujifilm Euro Press Photo Awards; the Photographica 2010 award at Estampa; VEGAP visual creation grants; third prize in the eleventh Fundación ENAIRE Photography Award; the best book of the year award at PHotoEspaña 2018; the 2021 Life Framer award in the Night Life category; a nomination for the 2023 Leica Oskar Barnack Award; the 2023 Imagenera Award for Documentary Creation on Andalusia; and the 2023/24 ENATE Art Award. He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, Canal de Isabel II in Madrid, MACUF in A Coruña, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, Instituto Cervantes in Paris, PHotoEspaña in Madrid, the Tenerife International Photography Biennial, Kursaal in San Sebastián, Conde Duque in Madrid, Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía, Centro Cultural de España in Lima, and the Alexandria and Mediterranean Countries Biennial. His work has also appeared at contemporary art fairs including ARCO, DFOTO, Madrid Foto, MACO in Mexico, Paris Photo, Photo London, CIGE in Beijing, KIAF in Korea, Preview Berlin and Next Art Fair Chicago. His work belongs to private collections and institutions including the Museo de la Fotografía Española, Spain's Ministry of Culture, the city councils of Alcobendas, Madrid, Valencia, Murcia and Tenerife, Fundación Ordóñez Falcó, the Cartier-Bresson family, Spain's Congress of Deputies and Ministry of Industry, the national heritage collections of Spain, France, Italy and Portugal, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Colección Circa XX, Colección ENAIRE and Colección DKV. His notable books include A la hora en el lugar (2013, Phree), LIKE (2017, Ediciones Anómalas), Normandie (2021, La Fábrica), Ochenta y cinco vistas (2022, Ediciones Remotas & La Fábrica), Un tiempo sin sentidos (2025, La Librería) and Espacio disponible (2025, Éditions Loco). His personal projects explore places where significant events have occurred and the possibility that spaces retain memories of what happened there.

Rafa Barrio is the designer behind Patrón Digital. His professional background spans several areas of design, including fashion, corporate design—with clients such as Valladolid's cultural foundation—and editorial layout. This varied experience has given him a comprehensive and versatile understanding of the discipline.

Design, artwork, layout and project development. Spain has specialist editorial design studios. If you are not a graphic designer, it is better to entrust this stage to one of the professionals introduced here. They can advise on suitable paper, layout and design, ensuring that every element contributes to a coherent result. The original article estimates that 80% of photobooks sell because of their cover design: the cover is the first thing buyers see, drawing them in and encouraging them to open the book. Underbau is the studio behind many photobooks published in Spain; entrusting them with a project's artwork is a strong choice.

La Troupe is a collective of professionals working on artistic and publishing projects. It can guide you from your project's initial concept through to final printing. Its team includes Gonzalo Golpe, who has extensive experience editing photobooks. La Troupe is an official partner of the Fiebre Photobook festival.

Graphic designer. He has developed projects for La Casa Encendida in Madrid, the Mostra Barcelona electronic music festival, publisher Ca L'Isidret and boutique hotel group Sir Hotels. He began working in Tokyo in 2002 and moved to Barcelona in 2010 after periods in Honolulu, San Francisco and London.

Ignasi López founded and runs this photobook laboratory in Caldes de Montbui. He brings more than twenty years of experience in graphic design for cultural promotion and fine-art photography, with work in the national photography collection, Arxiu Nacional de Catalunya and France's Fonds national d'art contemporain. He also has fifteen years of experience in book editing—as founder of Bside Books, a collaborator with publishers and a supporter of self-publishing—and in developing and coordinating artistic and research projects, including Terra-lab.cat, winner of the first Lluís Carulla Prize, Transigrafías, Geopresències, ItineraLab and Born CCM. In 2018, he brought this experience together in a book-making workshop and laboratory in Caldes de Montbui, offering authors tools and support in design, editing, research and the complete production of artists' books and photobooks. La Bibliogràfica works with external editors, craft printing, printmaking and binding workshops, and major high-quality printers, coordinating and supervising the complete process. It also collaborates with schools and art and image centres on training programmes in self-publishing.

Specialists in publishing and printing high-quality art books and photobooks, as well as graphic printing on a wide range of materials and formats. Personal service and advanced technology ensure high-quality results for artists, museums and institutions.

You can submit your project to La Kursala's open calls. Los Cuadernos de la Kursala is a collection of photobooks published by the University of Cádiz alongside exhibitions at the Kursala gallery. Over the past decade, it has become a leading reference for emerging and contemporary photography across Spain.

Winners of the prestigious Fedrigoni Top Award 2022 for Xavier Carrión’s photobook "Sueño lo que soy", this Barcelona-based printer specialises in publishing and printing high-quality art books and photobooks.

At Palermo, we have spent fifty years passionately doing what we do best. We manage every stage of the art of printing and live and breathe the world of content reproduction. We are both a technology company and a human one: creative, experienced professionals who continually evolve, adapting to the digital era and changes in the market. People committed to other people and their projects. Our clients complete a team in which commitment, honesty, trust and integrity build relationships beyond production alone. As an established European company with a strong international presence, we bring a global perspective that distinguishes us within the sector. At Palermo, our ambition is not to be the biggest, but to deliver the highest quality and the greatest added value in every product we make.

With more than thirty years of experience, Brizzolis is one of Spain's most respected printing companies for photobook production.

The Folio Club is an offset and digital printing company specialising in publishing and graphic projects.

Photographic Social Vision is a nonprofit foundation to consider if you are thinking of publishing a project. It promotes honest photojournalism to inform society and raise awareness. It also runs two opportunities that can help turn a project into a photobook with professional guidance: the Joana Biarnés grant and the Star Dummy Award. Watch for their open calls. The foundation also offers portfolio reviews and advice for photographers.

The final course in El Observatorio's training programme is intended for people whose photographic project is already well advanced. It teaches you how to tackle the final stages of production and develop your project into a photobook. The programme explores the key aspects of photographic storytelling, examining all the elements that contribute to an effective visual narrative. The course aims to guide students in developing their own photographic and other material so that it reflects both the story's needs and the author's objectives. The specific qualities of books, multimedia and wall displays are explored in depth, allowing projects to take shape in each format and make the most of its expressive possibilities. Each participant's photographic project is central to the course. Reviews of photographic work are regular and personalised. A small group of no more than 12 participants allows for close, dedicated guidance. Course coordinator Carlos Medina accompanies participants through every stage, working with an established team of photographers, editors, designers, curators, writers and multimedia editors to provide a comprehensive, multidisciplinary education. Several tutors review each project, offering fresh perspectives at every stage of the creative process: Juan Diego Valera and Israel Ariño for the book format, Natasha Christia for installation and David Linuesa for multimedia.

Financing is perhaps the least enjoyable part of publishing a photobook. Doing it well is expensive and requires funding. Dartbooks recommends considering Kickstarter before Spain's Verkami platform, because many supporters of creative projects are based abroad. Develop a project that inspires confidence and keep your backers regularly informed. Prepare several premium rewards in the form of special editions. The original article suggests retaining the option of funding some rewards yourself if you fall just short of the target. Remember that the platform uses an all-or-nothing model: reaching the goal makes the pledged funding available. British photographer Edward Thompson's projects offer examples of successful campaigns. Kickstarter is a major crowdfunding platform for creative projects. Creators present ideas in areas such as technology, design, film and art, setting a funding target and deadline. Successful projects offer backers rewards, often the finished product. It operates on an all-or-nothing basis.