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 a mass infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
Starting out as a correspondent in Jerusalem, I began to document my written reporting through photography. Since then, my freelance in-depth visual reporting has taken 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 the connection between conservative politics and the impact of air pollution in Poland as well as 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.

PUBLICATIONS

Reuters, The New York Times [US], Washington Post [US], BBC [UK], Al Jazeera Eng, The Guardian [UK], Newsweek [Japan], Foreign Affairs [US], El País [Spain], Courrier International, Haaretz [Israel], Il Reportage [Italy], New Internationalist [UK], NRC [Netherlands], Aftenposten Innsikt [Norway], The Sydney Morning Herald [Australia], Woz [Switzerland], Profil [Austria], Informatìon [Denmark], The International Business Times, Bistandsaktuelt [Norway], RFI Radio France Internationale, LUSA Portuguese News Agency, among others.

RECOGNITION | SHOWCASES | LECTURES | Etc.

— Panelist, Photography and Conflict, f/est Amarante, 2022
— Guest talk, Design Week, Fine Arts Faculty, Porto Uni., 2022
— Recipient, National Geographic Society funding, 2021
— Guest talk, Colby College , 2020 [US]
— Presentation, Kim Wall Memorial Seminar, 2019 Malmö [Se]
— Guest talks, IPF - Instituto Português de Fotografia and Fine Arts Faculty, Porto University, 2019 Porto [Pt]
— Grantee, IWMF Kim Wall Memorial Fund, 2019
— Panellist, 'Women in Photography' at MIRA, 2018 Porto [Pt]
— Panellist, Georges Dussaud Photography Center - Plast&Cine Festival, 2018 Bragança [Pt]
— Solo exhibition, 'THE SPACES BETWEEN US' at Espaço Mira, 2018 Porto [Pt]
— NY Portfolio Review - Participant, 2018 New York [US]
— TIME MAGAZINE, named one of '34 Female Photographers to Follow', 2017
— Guest talk, 'Changing Views - Documentary Perspectives on Human Rights'  at Sune Jonsson Center for Documentary Photography, 2017 Umeå [Se]
— 'BETWEEN WARS', projection at 'Festival Silêncio' , 2016 Lisbon [Pt]
— 'BETWEEN WARS', projection and presentation curated by 'The GYM' collective at HaRiviera Gallery, 2015 Bat Yam [iL]

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