The Foto Colectania Foundation is a private non-profit organisation (register nº 1554) founded in Barcelona in 2002, aiming at promoting photography and encouraging photography collecting through exhibitions, activities (conferences, seminars, trips) and catalogue editions.Foto Colectania has its own photography collection that comprises of more than 2.000 works of Spanish and Portuguese authors from 1950 until today. Moreover, it has a library with free access to the public and a conservation vault, where the photography collection is stored, together with photographer Paco Gómez’s archive (donated by his family in 2001) and the temporary deposit of part of Juan Redón’s collection.The Foundation is partly financed by the contribution of sponsors, members as well as external collaborators.
