Myrian Bahntje

She was born and lives in Bahía Blanca, where she studied Visual Arts Teaching and worked as an art educator for many years. Today, she is a freelance illustrator who collaborates with various national and international publishers, creating works aimed at children and young audiences.

She is the President of the Association of Illustrators of Argentina (ADA), an organization through which she coordinates and takes part in exhibitions, fairs, and other activities related to illustration.

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Are generative artificial intelligences tools or competition for creative individuals?

Enrique Torralba

Enrique Torralba is an illustrator, designer, and multidisciplinary artist. As a professional illustrator, he has illustrated fifty books, some of which have been published in Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Latin America. As a designer, he has participated in several notable projects and has represented Mexico abroad on multiple occasions.

Xavi Ramiro

Invitado de Honor

Xavi Ramiro is a freelance illustrator with more than twenty-five years of experience in the fields of publishing and applied visual creation. He has illustrated numerous books and educational materials published in Europe, the United States, and Asia.

His style combines digital techniques with a strong narrative character and a fresh, versatile visual language that adapts equally well to children’s books, nonfiction publications, and works for adult audiences. He has also developed cultural projects such as the exhibition Música ilustrada (“Illustrated Music”), which brings together illustration, literature, and music. His work has been recognized with several awards, including two Junceda Prizes.

He currently combines his professional practice with teaching, serving as Director of the Master’s in Illustration at Shifta by Elisava. He is also President of the Professional Association of Illustrators of Catalonia (APIC), from where he actively promotes and defends illustration as both an artistic and professional discipline.

Elisabeth Pérez Fernández

Eli was born in Barakaldo in 1988 and lives in Orozko, at the foot of the Gorbea Natural Park. She is an illustrator and editor of Bonito Editorial, a publishing house she founded in 2013. There, she has published works by other artists such as Pablo Amargo, Kveta Pacovska, Roger Olmos, Mariana A Miseravel, among others, as well as books authored by herself. She has also illustrated for other publishers, including Media Vaca, Erein, Igela, and Veleta Roja. In addition to books, she works on cultural management and educational projects in museums, while keeping alive her workshop El Lirón Gris and her small gallery-bookshop Segunda. She manages the international area of Euskal Irudigileak and has been directing Irudika for nine years. Eli enjoys drawing and painting natural and industrial landscapes in shades of blue.

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Diversity of Prints