VIOLETA
SANTOS MOURA

ABOUT

I am a photojournalist from Vila Real de Trás-os-Montes, Portugal, born in the glorious '80s. Since September 2022 I am a Reuters staff photojournalist based in Madrid. In 2017 I was named by TIME one of '34 Female Photographers to Follow'.  I'm also a past  National Geographic Society grantee, a recipient of the Kim Wall/IWMF Memorial Fund and member of Women Photograph.

Most recently and as a photojournalist for Reuters, I covered the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the aftermath of the attack by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel.

Starting out as a wire text correspondent in Jerusalem, I became interested in documenting my reporting through photography. From then on, my in-depth visual reporting took me from covering Portugal and Spain, amidst the European economic crisis, to the Middle East, reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and on less visible aspects there, such as the African asylum-seeking community in Israel. I also documented different aspects of the Kashmir conflict on the 70th anniversary of the longest ongoing case of military rule over a civilian population. Other in-depth visual reporting included topics such as the connection between conservative politics and the impact of air pollution in Poland, the origins and toll of a protracted human trafficking crisis in Nepal or the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the remote and isolated rural areas of northern Portugal.