Graduated from the London College of Communication, Ingrid is a documentary and portrait photographer, filmmaker, and participatory visual media facilitator. Her studies in social and visual anthropology made a major shift to her career, it triggered her passion for community engagement and self-representation and led her to found Fotosynthesis. She has more than 10 years of experience in designing and implementing participatory media projects and audiovisual productions within the education, museums, and international development sectors in Europe, Africa, and Latin America with INGOs such as Interpeace, International Catalan Institute of Peace, United States Institute of Peace, Conciliation Resources and Beyond Skin (Northern Ireland).

As an executive director of Fotosynthesis, she continues to exhibit her work and undertakes photographic and filmmaking assignments and long-term projects around peacebuilding, migration, identities, memories using different alternative and historical photographic processes. She is also an associate of Insightshare delivering participatory video processes.

www.ingridguyon.com

Carô Gervay works as a photographer, artist, and facilitator in the UK, France and Vietnam. Her multicultural background and love of all forms of creative expressions made her develop projects linking everyday life with identities and memories. She is interested in how photography enables a quest for a sense of belonging whilst weaving individual’s and people’s narratives into collective memory-or loss of it. To her “writing with light” is a relationship and a performance where time slows down and people come together. Her approach is intuitive, intimate, and experimental.

Collaboration is an integral part of her practice, which ranges across several disciplines. She is a co-director at the Gate Darkroom, a community darkroom based at Thames-Side Studios, Woolwich; an associate artist at the youth organisation Phakama UK; and a member of the Asia Art Activism research network. She has joined our team in 2013 with our Jesuit Refugee Services project and was a key part of our Learning Through Photography project in primary schools.

www.carolinegervay.com

Diego is a creative publicist, senior graphic designer and photographer with over 20 years of experience.

He has worked for public institutions and private companies designing campaigns with positive impacts on different communities such as Road accident prevention campaigns (Ecopetrol, BP) and Campaign against domestic violence (Casanare Government, Colombia).

Now based in London, he is a crucial member of Fotosynthesis’ s branding and web design as well as working with the Design Museum, London Real TV, McLaren, Aston Martin, Royal Ascot among others. He is an active member of the Latin American community and organisations in London.

Driven by his passion and discipline, Diego´s extensive knowledge of designing and audio-visual tools and his multiple skills (music, video production, web design and community management) provide him with the ability to lead and design well-thought projects in which visual coherence and high quality are the main values.

Collaborative relationships guides him to create content that responds directly to the needs of the projects he gets involve in.

https://zooverano.com

Sara has joined our team in 2014 as a non-executive director. She acts as an adviser and brings her expertise in participatory methods, evaluation, international development, museums, and schools. She studied Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Oxford, UK. After graduation, she started working for Survival International, before joining Insightshare as a facilitator, trainer, and project manager of participatory video projects, both internationally and in the UK.

Her work ranges from long-term capacity-building programmes to shorter-term engagements with diverse groups and issues such as migrants in the UK; indigenous groups in Asia and the Americas – around food sovereignty, climate change resilience; the participatory video for monitoring and evaluation. Partners have included grassroots groups and larger organisations such as the British Council, the United Nations, UNDP, Mercy Corps, Transparency International, Comic Relief, Christian Aid. She now works as a facilitator and forest schools in a democratic school in South West London. 

Salomé Molano Vera is 17 years old, from Colombia and currently lives in Zaragoza, Spain. Salomé, known for being the youngest filmmaker in Colombia, is a screenwriter, cameraman, director and actress. Since she was a child she has acted, been a presenter and juror at a film festival; she has participated in audiovisual, scriptwriting and editing workshops, among others. At her young age she has directed 8 short films; in 2021 she won first place in the Festicine category of the Festival de Cine e Infancia y Adolescencia in Bogotá, Colombia. She has been a member of the Fotosynthesis team for more than a year, and is currently in the process of making her short film “La imagen de lo que hice ayer”, as director and produced by Fotosynthesis. Her motivation is to make films for young people made by young people; to share and create content from her perspective as a teenager.

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