Pedro Madueño

Pedro Madueño Palma (born 1961 in La Carlota, Córdoba) is a Spanish photographer. He worked as a graphic reporter for the newspaper La Vanguardia in Barcelona from 1983 to 2015. In 2015 he was appointed Deputy Director of La Vanguardia with responsibility for the image area of the newspaper. He was an associate professor at Pompeu Fabra University and since 2008 he has taught graduate students at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is the author of the official image of Prince Felipe de Borbón y Grecia from 2002 until 2010. In 2010 he authored the official image of President of the Government of Catalonia Artur Mas. He photographed Salvador Dalí during the last three years of the artist's life.

His career as a photographer started in 1975. His mentors were Juan Guerrero and Eugeni Madueño. He first published when he was only fifteen years old. He has contributed to Barcelonan newspapers including Tele/exprés, Mundo Diario, El Noticiero Universal, El Periódico de Catalunya and Diario de Barcelona. He created what has become known as the "photo of consensus", now an established tradition in the Catalan press. Since 1984, on the eve of elections in Catalonia, Madueño and La Vanguardia have managed to join candidates from all political parties for a group photo.