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Tatiana Lopez (Ambato, Ecuador, 1990.) Documentary photographer, visual anthropologist, and artist currently based in Ecuador.
Her practice is rooted in the narratives that the body and the land trace, connecting the role place and memory play in constructing and deconstructing identity. Through photography and filmmaking, Tatiana explores the intersectionality between cultural identity, women’s rights, environmental conservation, transgenerational trauma, and extractivism.
Following her background in visual anthropology, her work is informed by practice-led research, combining sensory and participatory ethnography, photo embroidery, and alternative photographic processes as collaborative and experimental modes to co-create visual stories that challenge conventional narratives and modes of representation. Her ethnographic research interests include Indigenous animistic practices, the body-territory relations in connection with indigeneity and well-being, and the study of human and other-than-human relationships through dreams.
Tatiana’s ethnographic film, “Naku Ikinyu,” has been officially selected for international film festivals in Ecuador, the United States, Germany, Austria, Spain, Mexico, Denmark, and Finland. In 2021, “Naku Ikinyu” received the Audience Award from Muestra de Antropología Audiovisual de Madrid (MAAM) and the Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Work from The Society for Visual Anthropology. She received the Revolutionary Storyteller Grant 2022 from Photographers Without Borders and won third place in the LensCulture Fine Art Photography Awards 2022. Her photography has been part of international exhibitions in Mexico, Spain, Bolivia, the United States, England, and Canada.
She is an Up Next Diversify Photo and Women Photograph member and collaborates with Tawna Cine.
For Tatiana, storytelling is a constant journey of self-discovery, connection, meditation, understanding, and transformation.
Awards and Workshops
2025 - Nominee World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass. 2024 - Awe Project runner-up of the "Conservation Photography - Series" category, NATURE AND HUMANS. 2024 - 100 Finalists in PhotoVogue's Global Open Call The Tree of Life: a Love Letter to Nature. 2024 - Memory and Territory Virtual Workshop with Gisela Volá and Margarita Garcia Faure. 2023 - Recipient of ECO/23] Ecologias/Territorios/Comunidades Grant with Tawna, Vist Projects. 2022 - Revolutionary Storyteller Grant Recipient / Photographers without Borders. 2022 - In Between Dreams the Forest Echos the Song of the Burning Anaconda / LensCulture’s Art Photography Awards, 3rd Place Winner. 2021 - Shortlisted in the Lucie Foundation Fine Art Scholarship Program. 2021 - Naku Ikinyu / SVA Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Work, Winner. 2021 - Naku Ikinyu / Audience Award, Muestra de Antropología Audiovisual de Madrid (MAAM). 2021 - Long-Term Project (Virtual) Workshop with Natalie Keyssar + Daniella Zalcman. 2021- Documentary Photography Storytelling Online Workshop with Tamara Merino. 2020 - Photographers Without Borders Storytelling Online School with Danielle Khan Da Silva.
Exhibitions
2024 - Tree of Life a Love Letter to Nature by PhotoVogue, Milan, Italy. 2024 - HABITAT Expo London, Fotografas Latam, London, UK. 2023 - "ECO/23] Ecologías/Territorios/Comunidades", Cultural Center of Spain, CDMX, Mexico. 2023 - "ECO/23] Ecologías/Territorios/Comunidades", Paseo del Prado, La Paz, Bolivia. 2023 - "PAUSA" GetxoPhoto Festival, Bilbao, Spain. 2023 - Photo London at Somerset House, LensCulture Exhibition, London, UK. 2022 - “Mother Earth Speaks”, CONTACT Exhibit, Photographers without Borders. 2021 - "Reframe" Online Exhibition, Photographers Without Borders. 2021 - “Reimagine” Photographers Without Borders Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival. 2021 - "Pathways to Reconnection" Online Ethnographic Exhibition, Freie Universität Berlin. 2021 - “Futuro Ahora Group Show” Online Exhibition, Femgrafia + Fotofeminas. 2019 - "Syndicate Eleven" Hošek Contemporary, Berlin, Germany. 2018 - “Illuminations” 313 Gallery, Jersey City, NJ.
Film Festivals
2024 - Yarishaya Itiumu / Montreal Women Film Festival, Canada. 2024 - Yarishaya Itiumu / Toronto Documentary Short Film Festival, Canada. 2023 - Naku Ikinyu/ Ethnokino Film Festival, ENAH, CDMX, Mexico. 2023 - Naku Ikinyu/ Ethnokino Film Festival, Lichtblick-Kino, Berlin, Germany. 2023 - Naku Ikinyu / Festival de Cine Etnográfico de Ecuador, Flacso Cine, Quito, Ecuador. 2022 - Naku Ikinyu / Katra Latinx Festival Official Selection, New York City - USA. 2022 - Naku Ikinyu / 16th Ethnocineca, IDFF, Vienna - Austria. 2022 - Naku Ikinyu / German International Film Festival, Göttingen - Germany. 2021 - Naku Ikinyu / Nature and Culture Poetry Film Festival, Copenhagen - Denmark. 2021 - Naku Ikinyu / "Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival" Quarter Finalist, Sassari - Italy. 2021 - Naku Ikinyu / MAAM, Finalist, Madrid - Spain. 2021 - Naku Ikinyu / Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival Virtual Edition, USA. 2021 - Naku Ikinyu / Global Peace Film Festival, Free for all Short Virtual Edition, Florida - USA. 2021 - Naku Ikinyu / “Breaking the Rules? Power, Participation, Transgression”, Helsinki - Finland.
Publications
2022 - Ecuador Patrimonios del Mundo, Fábrica de Ideas + Instituto Metropolitano de Patrimonio. 2022 - Issue #17 Photographers Without Borders Magazine. 2020 - “Through Your Lens”, Photographers Without Borders magazine.
Features
Frankfurter Allgemeine Quarterly Fisheye Magazine LensCulture Planted Journal NPR The Guardian Photographers Without Borders
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