Barbara Silbe is a journalist, curator and the founder and editor-in-chief of EyesOpen! Magazine, established in 2014. She writes about photography, art, technology, culture and tourism for Il Giornale, IL FOTOGRAFO and other publications, bringing together editorial experience and a sustained engagement with contemporary visual culture.
She serves on national and international photography juries and curates books, cultural events, and solo and group exhibitions. As an independent curator, she collaborates with museums, companies and publishing houses. She also teaches visual storytelling at educational institutions and editorial photography at Panorama Academy / eCampus University.
Silbe curates the Italian edition of the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition at the Diocesan Museum of Milan. For the same museum, she has produced and curated exhibitions devoted to British portrait photographer Lee Jeffries and Italian photojournalist Livio Senigalliesi. She also conceived La fotografia diventa nobile, a charity auction involving 178 artists in support of the Italian Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation.
