The 18th edition of PHotoEspaña, the International festival of Photography and Visual Arts, will have a new Director: María García Yelo, who assumes the post after her predecessor, Claude Bussac—who helmed the Festival for eight editions—, was named Director of Exhibitions and Festivals for La Fábrica. María García Yelo holds a degree in Art History from Madrid's Universidad Complutense, with graduate studies in Contemporary Art. She has been the Director of Contemporary Art for the Christie's auction house in Spain (2008-2013), under-Director of Conservation and Research at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía (2005-2008), and Adjunct Director of the Museo Esteban Vicente in Segovia. She has also curated exhibitions of contemporary art in public and private institutions, and is the author of many articles and essays on art history topics. The new Director of PHotoEspaña faces great challenges for the 18th edition, which in 2015 will be monographically devoted to Latin American photography and has expanded its dates from June 3rd through August 30th. Considering the theme chosen for this edition, the Festival will also serve as a platform for showcasing the confluences, bifurcations, and contrapositions coursing through the photographic genre and the complexity of photography ion Latin America, on the basis of a variety of activities, such as, among others: -An exhibition of works by Mario Cravo Neto, representative of Brazilian photography and culture, which will be the artist's first European retrospective after his death in 2009. -Re-readings of Latin American photography through significant international collections that are attentive to the development of the arts in the region, like Daros Latin America, which will present a group exhibition curated by Gerardo Mosquera. -Collaborative exhibitions presented with institutions such as Mexico's Centro de la Imagen, which will survey the story of photography in Mexico over the last 30 years in a show curated by Ana Casas Broda, Gabriela González Reyes, and Gerardo Montiel Klimt.