Editorial Team
We are a team of friends, professionals of different disciplines, based in London, Madrid, Edinburgh and A Coruña.
carolina@brit-es.com
Editor in chief & Creative Director. BA in Graphic Design at the Escuela Pablo Picasso in A Coruña (1997). The best letter of introduction is her portfolio, her best weapons are her creativity and her communication skills. She has built her career in A Coruña and London, living with one foot in each city since 2001. She has worked at La Voz de Galicia, in the creative department at Idea and at the London multinational Pentagram Design. She is associate and Art Director of Anorak Studio. Granddaughter of a photographer, her father was an artist and her mother is a writer. In 2013 she is embarking on this new project: a change in direction in her career that lets her combine two of her passions: art and publishing.



angel@brit-es.com
Associate Publisher & IT Manager. BSc Computing Science (Software Engineering), London Metropolitan University (2000). He received his academic and professional training in London where he lives and has lived for almost all of his adult life. It is there that he specialises in the creation of systems for the tourism industry. He has been an associate at Anorak Studio since it opened in London in 2002.
vanesa@brit-es.com
Deputy Director & Art Critic. Sociologist and Phd in Art. She has been mediator, teacher and supervisor of programs of educational and artistic self-management in countries such as Senegal, Angola, Venezuela and Guatemala through various AECID scholarships. Her practice is based on a strategy that articulates the education as the core of personal and main development engine of social change. After finishing her studies in Sociology at UPSAM, she shaped as a technician of fine arts and design in the Applied Arts of the Sculpture, in the school of La Palma (Madrid) and she complements her studies around three lines: Education, New Technologiesa and Contemporary Creation, for it reconciles her activity of artistic mediation in PENSART, also working into management team in nathional organization MAV (Visual Artist Women). She lives and works in London.
abel@brit-es.com
Editor & PR Spain (Madrid). Abel graduated some years ago now in Information and Communication, specialising in Advertising and Public Relations and also holds a Master’s Degree in Public and Political Communications from Madrid’s Universidad Complutense. A diehard fan of cinema, theatre and culture in general, it is with great excitement and energy that he enters the world of journalism to begin a new stage in his career. During his working life Abel has worked mostly in fashion and has expertly combined his creativity and PR skills, always finding jobs and projects that he enjoys. Now that he has landed at Brit Es he is really going to go for it. So watch this space; he’s going to have a lot to say.
antonio@brit-es.com
Editor Advisor & Writer. A man of letters who, after taking courses in journalism, archaeology, linguistics, translation amongst other things, and being very experienced in the art of gastronomy and of communication has thrown himself into his work at the stove. Humanism is his most wholesome recipe!
christian@brit-es.com
Sales Director (London) & Writer. When he was eight years old, his father brought him back a gift from a trip to Canada: a tape with all of the current chart hits on it. Amongst them was “I Feel Love” by Donna Summer and after that nothing was the same again! He has lost two record collections in his life, the most recent of which was ruined in a flood in his friend’s basement in Homerton. He is a music fan but is not completely obsessed; he manages to keep his melomania at a level that allows him to live a normal life. We hope you enjoy reading his articles.



noela@brit-es.com
Photojournalist and Photography Department Coordinator. She was six years old when she came to London asa first time and decide to come back in future to be a rocker punk. Noela started her studies in photographic in Madrid at Madphoto School. In 2011 she decides to leave everything in Spain and come to London to achieve a dream. She graduated last December at the prestigious master of Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at London College of Communication. Currently he is working as a freelance and developing their own documentaries. Interested in social issues and health related, lively and feisty. Noela also has a degree in Physical Education and Sport and has specialized in Marketing and Management.
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Ana is a Galician who worked for five years in the CGAC (Galician Centre of Contemporary Art) and has contributed with several art magazines. In 2010 she moved to Edinburgh where she is studing a master’s degree in Contemporary Art and has also curated many exhibitions. Since 2013 she manages the gallery Interview Room 11 in colaboration with Mirja Koponen and she promotes intensely Spanish artist in the capital city of Scotland.



A Welshman who moved to Oxford to study French and Spanish during which time he lived and worked in South France and Madrid. He has now returned to South Wales to study Welsh and Celtic Studies at Cardiff University after which he hopes to work in the promotion and use of the Welsh language.
danny@brit-es.com
Head translator. Danny is an Anglo-Peruvian student from London. He is currently studying Spanish Literature at the University of Oxford. As a keen traveller, he enjoys visiting both Spain and Latin America at any opportunity. He is a great fan of the works of Borges and loves Spanish cinema and theatre.
Miriam Rodríguez is a writer by vocation, and a former Audio Visual Producer with an MA in Culture, Policy and Management from City University London. She is a big fan of films, whatever their length (feature length or shorts) and of colours (as well as black and white). If there were an alien invasion and it was down to her to save one film for the enjoyment of future generations she would choose Michael Haneke’s “Das weiße Band”.
Olga Pastor Alvarado (Ourense 1981) graduated in Art History and with a postgraduate degree in Art Market arrived in London in 2010. She realizes curatorial projects and services to galleries independently. It is easy to find in openings, auctions and other cultural events in the British capital. She is also a founding partner and CEO in Naruab and Tackycardia. Olga also has a great blog where she writes about art and many other interesting things.



Paulina has an MA in Culture Policy and Management at City University London (2012). Restless and curious, was the music that brought her to London over 8 years ago but has been the amount of cultural activities and projects in which it is involved what keeps her here. Degree in Philosophy from the University of Chile and a Postgraduate Diploma in Cultural Management with a major in Visual (2006) Arts Paulina liked David Bowie and the Bauhaus.
http://doloresgalindo.wordpress.com/
Dolores Galindo is a curator and art critic, with a Master’s Degree in Art and Politics from Goldsmiths University of London. She worked as a researcher at the Centre for Postcolonial Studies of the same institution and actually she is doing a doctorate at the School of Arts at Birkbeck College. She often contributes to several art and cultural publications. Her core interests are in the ways in which new paradigms of globalisation are reflected in contemporary art. She lives and works in London.
http://elsofarojoparaleer.blogspot.com
She has a degree in Hipanic Studies from the “Universidad Autónoma de Madrid”. During two years she cataloged the poet Jorge Guillén manuscripst at the National Library of Madrid working with the academic D. Claudio Guillén. Elsa is a Spanish teacher, works as editor and proofreader for differents publications and agencies in Spain. Short Story Award at Binéfar (Huesca) in 2009 and finalist in the XXVII Ana María Matute de Relato Award (2015).
He has a degree in Communication. He was born in Belgium and lived until he was 12 years old in France when he moved to Valencia. Guido is a filmmaker, producer and director of his own short films and corporate videos. You can find him at any film library, theater or music festival. He is always trying to get that interview that gives him a challenge or fill out his craving for curiosity.



http://www.miracirera.com
Focused on cultural journalism and musical criticism, this led to her still active facet as a singer and lover of great soul and jazz. Live happily enveloped in the unstoppable cultural movement of London and with the full agenda of events and concerts to enjoy and write. He collaborates with different publications on emerging art and trends.
http://www.santiyague.com
Editor, editor, content curator and independent digital content creator. He also has been working as a Spanish teacher for foreigners when he was living in London, a few years ago. Now he is back to his city, Madrid, although he is still connected to the British capital through Brit Es Magazine and his frequent visits to London. He loves everything that has to do with literature, visual arts and new ways of communication.
A lifelong Londoner, her love of languages lead her to study Spanish and Linguistics at Oxford University where she danced salsa, organised technical theatre and sang in her spare time. Whilst studying she became interested in Galician language and culture and spent a wonderful year teaching English and eating seafood in Viveiro. Formerly English Language Editor.
http://xavieralcala.blogaliza.org/
Xavier Alcalá (Miguelturra, 1947), Telecommunications Engineer, Doctor in Informatics. He began his literary career in the 60s writing lyrics for Galician pop singer Andrés do Barro. Since then he has published more than 40 titles including short stories, travel books and novels. He is the author of ‘A nosacinza’, a canonical novel in Galician literature. The main subjects in his body of work are emigration and adventure. His books are published in Galician by Galaxia, a publishing house of whose board of directors he is a member. His translated work to Spanish and English can be found in Valdemar, Ézaro, Nowtilus, Rinoceronte and TheWriteDeal. From 1971 to the present day he is a columnist in newspapers and magazines.
Contributors
We work with a network of contributors that includes journalists, writers, designers, stylists, photographers, translators, communications and public relations professionals and people from the art world, all of whom have an interest in art and culture.


















































