Elisa Medde edits, curates and writes about photography and visual culture. With a background in art history, iconology and photographic studies, her research reflects on the relationship between image, communication and power structures.
Medde has been nominator for a number of prizes and chaired various juries. In additional curating paper and physical spaces, she regularly writes for Foam Magazine and various publications such as Something We Africans Got, Vogue Italia / L'Uomo Vogue, YET Magazine, BJP and has contributed to many artists’ books. She is a lecturer at the ECAL, Lausanne, and a Board Member for Salwa Foundation, Amsterdam.
She has been Editor-in-Chief of Foam Magazine, until 2023.