Horacio Fernández, currently the artistic director of PhotoEspaña, is an art historian and teacher of the History of Photography at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. He has organised exhibitions on the history of photography, notably Mexicana. La fotografía moderna en México 1923-1940 (IVAM, Valencia, 1998) and Fotografía pública (MNCARS Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, 1999), whose catalogue is his main publication. He has collaborated as a critic of contemporary art in newspapers such as El Mundo, and the reviews Buades, El Europeo and Kalias. He is the author of a number of essays on art and photography.