COURSE DIRECTOR: Joan Villaplana (Manresa, Barcelona, 1976) started his Photography studies at the GrisArt School in Barcelona, extending them afterwards in different forms in the School of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France. In 2002 he obtained a BA in Humanities, majoring in philosophy and aesthetics, at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. He works with photography and video. He is involved in several education programs as Fotografiaencurs, whose aim is to teach the photographic language in elementary and high schools and university levels where he teaches in Barcelona. Since 2011 he has been teaching at theEuropean Master of Fine Art Photography in IED Madrid.