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Bio<\/span><\/span><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>
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Mer Hausmann<\/strong> (Madrid, 1987) is a visual artist, professional photographer, digital retoucher, and educator specializing in generative artificial intelligence and advanced image editing. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, where she is currently pursuing her PhD.<\/p>\n

With over a decade of experience in photography, she worked for two years as a digital retoucher for Eugenio Recuenco on his ambitious project 365\u00ba<\/em>, as well as on numerous advertising campaigns. Since 2021, she has combined her teaching work\u2014at schools such as LENS, LABASAD, EFTI, Too Many Flash, and Blackkamera\u2014with the development of personal artistic projects and professional postproduction.<\/p>\n

Her work has received recognition on several occasions: in 2022, she was awarded the top Promotion Prize in the Master\u2019s Program in Author Photography at EFTI and the Portfolio Prize at the Fotomat\u00f3n Festival in Orihuela for her series Artificialia I<\/em>. In 2023, her AI-based project L\u2019Homme Noy\u00e9<\/em> was shortlisted for the Revela-T and Baffest festivals. In 2024, she was selected for the Descubrimientos PhotoEspa\u00f1a portfolio reviews, again shortlisted for Baffest and for SCAN Tarragona\u2019s Full Contact, and participated in the \u201cImagen Futura\u201d program\u2014organized by PhotoEspa\u00f1a and Fundaci\u00f3n Telef\u00f3nica\u2014with a generative AI performance.<\/p>\n

In June 2025, she inaugurated Adelaida<\/em> alongside Jorge Salgado, a solo exhibition within the Official Section of PHotoESPA\u00d1A at the Museo del Romanticismo in Madrid. The show reconstructs the memory of her great-great-grandmother by hybridizing her 19th-century family photo archive with contemporary AI-assisted visual creation techniques. In November of the same year, she will present On comen\u00e7a la Llum<\/em>, an exhibition project produced through the L\u2019Arxiu Grant from the Scan Tarragona festival, on view until February 2026 at the Centre D\u2019Imatges (Tabacalera). The conceptual core of the exhibition is a feminist intervention into the city\u2019s photographic archive using generative AI.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

Education<\/span><\/span><\/p>

2023 \u2013 | PhD in Contemporary Photography | Fine Arts | Complutense University of Madrid.
\n2022 | Master’s in Cultural Project Management | Efti.
\n2021 \u2013 2022 | International Master’s in Author Photography | Efti | First in Class Award.
\n2018 | Film Editing Course | Lens, Madrid.
\n2017 | ProFoto Certification Course | Workshop Experience, Madrid.
\n2017 | Photography Assistant Course | Workshop Experience, Madrid.
\n2014 \u2013 2015 | Master’s in Fashion and Advertising Digital Post-Production | Workshop Experience.
\n2012 \u2013 2013 | Professional Course in Digital Photography | Efti.
\n2006 \u2013 2013 | Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts | Complutense University of Madrid.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Conferences and events<\/span><\/span><\/p>

2025 | <\/span>Hausmann Archive: Romantic Photography and Family Memory (1850\u20131920)<\/em> | Real Sociedad Fotogr\u00e1fica | Madrid (Spain) <\/span>
\n2025 | <\/span>Hausmann Archive: A Family Portrait of Madrid\u2019s Bourgeois Society (1850\u20131900)<\/em> | Leica Akademie | Madrid (Spain) <\/span>
\n2025 | <\/span>An Unexpected Family Archive: The Hausmann Collection<\/em> | Fotoconnexi\u00f3 Association | Online | Barcelona (Spain) <\/span>
\n2024 | <\/span>Generative AI as a Tool for Your Business<\/em> | San Blas Entrepreneurship Incubators, Community of Madrid | Madrid (Spain)<\/span>
\n2024 | “Jam session” on Artificial Intelligence as part of the Future Image series | PhotoEspa\u00f1a and Fundaci\u00f3n Telef\u00f3nica | Madrid (Spain).
\n2024 | AI: Enhance Your Photography Projects with Midjourney | Association of Professional Photographers of Spain | Online.
\n2023 | Hybridized Projects with Artificial Intelligence: L’Homme Noy\u00e9 | BasqueDok Festival | Azkuna Zentroa Hall | Bilbao.
\n2023 | AI as a Creative Tool | Faculty of Communication Sciences | Rey Juan Carlos University | Madrid (Spain).
\n2023 | The “Feminine” Image | BYoung Hall | Efti | Madrid (Spain).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

Scholarships and awards<\/span><\/span><\/p>

2024 | Full Contact | Scan Tarragona | Seleccionada | Tarragona (Espa\u00f1a).
\n2024 | Baffest | Preselected | Barakaldo (Spain).
\n2024 | PhotoEspa\u00f1a Descubrimientos | Selected | Santander (Spain).
\n2024 | PhotoEspa\u00f1a Discoveries | Selected | online (Spain).
\n2023 | Lux Awards | Jury | Madrid (Spain).
\n2023 | Revela-T Photo Festival | Finalist | Barcelona (Spain).
\n2023 | Baffest | Preselected | Barakaldo (Spain).
\n2022 | Fotomat\u00f3n Festival | Portfolio Award | Orihuela (Spain).
\n2022 | Fotomat\u00f3n Festival | Orihuela City Award | Orihuela (Spain) | Finalist.
\n2022 | International Master’s in Author Photography | First in Class Award | Efti (Spain).
\n2022 | Art Photography Awards | Selected Finalist | Lensculture (International).
\n2013 | Experimento Bio | Special Mention | Bilbao (Spain).
\n2013 | Fotoproyectos VIII | Portfolio Selection | Efti (Spain).
\n2013 | Final Year Projects | Project Selection | Complutense University and Museo del Traje | Madrid (Spain).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Exhibitions<\/span><\/span><\/p>

2025 | Project “On Comen\u00e7a la Llum” | Scan Tarragona 2025 | Centre d\u00b4Imatges \/ L\u00b4Arxiu | Tarragona (Spain)
\n2025 | Project “Adelaida” | PhotoEspa\u00f1a 2025 | Museo del Romanticismo | Madrid (Spain).
\n2022 | Project \u201cArtificialia I\u201d | Group Exhibition \u201cHistoria, Historias, Stories\u201d | FujiFilm Exhibition Hall | Efti | Madrid (Spain).
\n2022 | Project \u201cArtificialia I\u201d | Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez Exhibition Hall | Orihuela (Spain).
\n2013 | Fotoproyectos VIII | Espacio UnoNueve | Efti | Madrid (Spain).
\n2013 | Final Year Projects Selection | Museo del Traje | Madrid (Spain).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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