ArtsLibris' seminar aims to give collectors a voice, inviting on the one hand Gabriela Cendoya Bergache, a collector specialized in photobooks, who has gathered a collection of more than 3,000 volumes and who since 2017 manages the Center of Documentation and Library of the San Telmo Museum, with the main objective of making its collection more visible and making it available to the public, as well as deepening the study and knowledge of this type of artistic expression.

Also participating in the seminar is José María Lafuente, an exceptional collector who in 2002 founded the Archivo Lafuente, one of the most important private documentary collections on the avant-garde and artistic modernity in Europe. In 2009 he also promoted the publishing label La Bahía, where more than thirty books and catalogs have come to light, many thematically related to the Archive's own documentary collections.

5:30 pm  – Collecting Photobooks
Gabriela Cendoya, expert in photobooks and in charge of the activities of the San Telmo Museum Library, San Sebastián.
Isabel Bordes, director of the Library of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
Moderator: Toni Amengual, artist, editor and teacher, who has worked on photobooks and self-publishing projects.

7:30 pm – Collecting Publications
José María Lafuente, President and director of the Archivo Lafuente, Santander.
Miquel Molins, President of the Banc Sabadell Foundation and Director of the Banc Sabadell Art Collection.
Moderator: Teresa Grandas, Exhibitions Curator at MACBA.