Our Team

Editorial Team

We are a team of friends, professionals of different disciplines, based in London, Madrid, Edinburgh and A Coruña.

Carolina Núñez Roca
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.
Ángel Villalba
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 Cejudo
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 G. Santeiro
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 Sierra
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 San Martin
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 Roibás
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.

 

Regular 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.
Ana G. Chouciño
anagonzalez.ch@gmail.com
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.
Ben Ffrancon Davies
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 Concha
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
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
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 Ricardi
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.
Dolores Galindo
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.
Elsa Veiga
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).
Guido Benedicto
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.
Mira Cirera
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.
Santi Yagüe
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.
Sarah Burne James
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.
Xavier Alcalá
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.

Adam Carter
Originally from Bath, Adam’s love of languages came from listening to his French grandmother’s stories as a child. A love of Spanish soon followed, with a year in Madrid proving the highlight of his Modern Languages degree at Oxford. He enjoys football and rugby, is a classical music enthusiast and hopes to study further in the field of Spanish literature in Salamanca in the years to come.
Alberto Cribeiro
Alberto Cribeiro is a young graphic designer and web designer from A Coruña who works in London. With a degree in Audio-visual Communication and experience working in the media, he didn’t hesitate to take up the offer to work as a web designer in the Big Smoke. These days, Albert is working as a freelance designer, hoping to grow and progress in the UK’s international marketplace.
Alison Walsh
English Language translator and proofreader. Originally from Manchester, I study French and Spanish at Oxford University, and am currently on a Year Abroad split between France and Bolivia, which mostly involves writing a lot (in various languages), running a fair bit and sampling all of the best possible cakes in my current city. My interests include art, literature, sport, food, music, theatre and getting really angry about politics (but even I can’t juggle all that at the same time!).
My name is Ámbar and according to numerology I am a number five: “the number of restlessness and action. A symbol of freedom, adaptability, of an adventurous and wandering spirit, but also of inconsistency and overindulgence of the senses.” I can tell you even more myself, like how I always have cold feet and how I’m crazy about dogs. Soup and cheese (of any variety) make me happy, together with a good book and a lot of coffee to get me through the morning. I have a varied academic background but suffice to say that I come from the field of humanities and I am passionate about languages and literature. I am a hardened nostalgic, and people often call me a softie or even a sissy. My objective in life is to have a comfortable sofa on which to watch good films in good company.
Ana Inés Jabares Pita
Winner of the Linbury Prize for Stage Design 2013. After finishing her studies at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, she began work as a stage designer for events in the British capital. As well as having studied fine art in Seville and Palermo, this native of A Coruña has an extensive musical background, having collaborated with the choir of the Symphony Orchestra of Galicia and Gaos. Her current set design work covers a wide variety of genres: opera, ballet, theatre and even cinema. And now she's going to try her luck with the world of journalism, so let's see what adventures she has in store for us.
Catering Woods
Incurable pot-stirrer, lover of fine flavours, crazy about food… an interior designer by training, kitchen craftswoman and culinary snoop by profession and devoted anglophile. With her contributions to Brit Es she wants to take a small piece of the Island of Great Britain to the Iberian Peninsula and vice versa, to debunk stereotypes and bring the two cultures together across the dining table.
Clara Figueroa
Graphic designer by trade, she is currently dedicating herself to teaching. She has been nurturing her talent at oil painting from an early age and has been exhibited in the Herculean City (a.k.a. A Coruña) on a number of occasions. Her work moves smoothly from Expressionism to Realism, capturing the essence of this artist along its way. In her youth, she was also into poetry and wrote a number of books. She is currently working on a new literary project with a philosophical, syncretic bent entitled “Astrolabio” (2013).
David Carrillo
Webmaster at Brit Es Magazine. Currently compagina the development of mobile applications and Web development along with another of his passions, his work as an artistic gymnastics trainer.
David Guillén
A hunter of still or moving images, David lives collecting moments from here to there for more than 10 years. He studied Audiovisuals in Madrid and worked for some time at Grupo Prisa. One morning, without making much noise, he decided to take his camera and backpack and "fly" to continue training his gaze. First Holland, then England and now Scotland, where he has expanded his photography studies and works as an independent collecting images for Brit Es among others.
David Pazos
Graduated in design at the Pablo Picasso Design School of A Coruña (1997). He has worked as a graphic designer in different advertising companies and in audiovisual postproduction. From 2004 to 2010 he worked for ZARA (Inditex) as a designer, being two years in Shanghai (China) in the production department of the brand. In 2010 he decided to leave everything and go around the world, returning the following year to Coruña, where he works freelance for different brands and clients.
Elena Lafuente Alonso
She has a degree in History of Art from León University. She is working towards a Postgraduate Diploma in Theory and Aesthetics of Contemporary Art at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She recently finished a Master’s Degree in Digital Journalism at the University of Alcalá de Henares.
Catalan journalist currently living in London. Her passion for the media has led her to participate in projects for TV, radio, print and online media. She is a versatile professional with a special focus on online communication and cultural journalism. Music-lover, culture vulture, social network addict and fan of the 80s. She loves photography and knitting. All of the above stirred, not shaken.
Degree in Philosophy and Arts (Geography and History) at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Tutor of the practical lessons of the Institute of Education Sciences at the Universities of Santiago, A Coruña and the Polytechnical of Madrid. Collaborator Press.
London born-and-bred, Freya's passion for languages led her to study French and Spanish at Oxford University where she directed and acted in plays and wrote for her college magazine. During her studies she spent a year teaching English in Valencia and exploring Spanish culture; the highlight was Las Fallas with its buñuelos, verbenas and castillos. As well as being a linguist, Freya is a keen musician, artist and swing-dancer.
She holds a law degree from the University of A Coruña. With a post-graduate degree in Human Resources Management for businesses, institutions and organizations; and a Masters in Financial Management specialising in Integrated Communication and Protocol. Theatre actress and fencer collaborates with Brit It is from its beginnings.
Jessica Woodward
Originally from the Isle of Wight, her love of learning about other languages and countries led her to Oxford University in 2010 to study French and Spanish. Now working towards an MA in Translation at Surrey University, she spends much of her time writing and translating, both for her studies and professionally. She also loves to write creatively as a hobby. Other interests include music, movies, vegetarian cooking and obsessing about the novels of Jane Austen.
I was born in Cascais (Portugal) in 1985. I studied film and wrote for a Portuguese soap opera and TV series. Then in 2009 I moved to London to pursue a more exciting career in film and TV, but then that didn't happen. Now I'm a writer, an illustrator and a comic book artist, which means I have plenty experience in customer service and retail.
I am a Londoner born and bred, and have worked in education for over 30 years. I am currently studying a course on the history of the City of London. I am discovering many new and exciting things about the city and I love it! My first visit to Spain was when I was 16 and did a Spanish exchange in Madrid and Segovia. I was hooked by the language, food, culture and the weather - and I still am!
La Hairy De Herning
Born Spanish but feeling European, I’m the less creative of a Hairy saga of quite successful siblings who develop art in the forms of image, architecture and design. My contribution to art has been through writing as a means of expressing feelings, emotions, brain-landscapes and brain-farts. Some of the pieces I’ve produced have been published in some local newspapers and business magazines. Currently, I work full time in a very structured way in a worldwide well-known multinational that feeds my curiosity for art creation.
Breathing / talking / living / writing music for almost half a century. Music lover (forever), journalist (for 20 years+: Telemadrid, Canal +, El País, Rolling Stone, Radio 3, Rockdelux, LaNetro...) and malpractitioner (whenever they let me). Aka DJFlow... ***Estéreo360º (My radio show since 2016): http://www.circulobellasartes.com/radiocirculo/programas/estereo-360o/ ***Malestar General (My blog since 2004): https://malestargeneralblog.wordpress.com/
Miguel Augusti pseudonym of Miguel López Polo. Born in Madrid in 1971. Graduate in English Language and Literature at Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 1997 Master Poet, diver and swordsman at the time of writing. He would have liked to have played rugby.
Mirian H. Uyarra
Since her childhood she was surrounded by pencils, notebooks and electronic devices. She studied Audiovisual Communication and since then she has dedicated herself to it throughout the world: Spain, Russia, Panama, Guatemala, Ecuador, Mozambique, Palestine ... and now UK. She works as an audiovisual producer without ever ceasing to write collaborating in various written media.
Pablo Conejo
Photographer from Madrid who has lived for years in London where he studied a MA in "World Cities and urban cultures" at the University of Goldsmiths. He collaborates with Brit Es as a photographer in London and in Madrid and his work has been published and also exhibited in diverse European publications and spaces.
Pablo García
He has a degree in Fine Art, Design and Audiovisual from the University of Salamanca (2000). Born and bred in León, he is notable for his artistic talents and the high quality of his work. Pablo encompasses the essence of a new project, a technique to try out, an idea to explore. His painting, photography and illustration has been shown both in solo exhibitions and with the work of other artists. In the last few years he has been involved in a range of creative projects as a teacher, always standing out for his good nature and his effortless communication with the very young through the language of art and sculpture.
Sam Burne James
A native Londoner, Sam Burne James is a reporter for trade magazine Third Sector (thirdsector.co.uk), covering the voluntary and not for profit sector. He has a degree from the University of Oxford in Italian and Spanish, and spent the third year of the course teaching English in Ponferrada, North West Spain. In his spare time he is a keen runner and cyclist.
Writer and Artist. Product of an English mother and Spanish father, Seth is fascinated by national identity and cross-cultural tensions. Having studied English at Oxford University, he is now keen to wrestle with these ideas in his stories and art, and is thrilled to be able to write for Brit Es and bring both sides of his heritage together. He lives in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Author, editor, writer for different media. She has worked as a screenwriter for fiction and also as a scriptwriter for televisi.on series and various documentaries such as "Balearic Emigration in Cuba", "Gender Violence", "Hundred-year Old Businesses in Palma", "A History of Tourism" . She currently contributes to a variety of publications in the Balearics and further afield. She has a degree in law through circumstances beyond her control.
William Carter
Raised near London and then the small Channel Island of Guernsey, my interest in other cultures , their diverse languages, literatures and foodstuffs, drew me to studying French and Spanish at the University of Oxford and now to Japan where he studied Japanese while continuing to collaborate with Brit Es as a translator.