Joan Fontcuberta born in 1955 in Barcelona, is an artist, essayist, educator, and exhibition curator. His work has been exhibited at the MoMA in New York (1988), the Art Institute of Chicago (1990), the IVAM in Valencia, Spain (1992), the MNAC in Barcelona (1999), the Artium in Vitoria (2003), the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris (2014), and the Science Museum in London (2014), among others. In 2013, Joan Fontcuberta was awarded the International Prize from the Hasselblad Foundation. In 2020, he was conferred an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Paris VIII.

In his photography-oriented practice, Joan Fontcuberta challenges the authority of his medium to examine the subjectivity of truth and perception. His work questions the dogma of media, technology, religion, medicine, government, academia, the art world and science.