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Currently based in Madrid and Mallorca (Spain).
Ana Palacios is a visual journalist focused on human rights, environmental and animal Welfare issues.
Since 2023, she has been a mentor for the Canon Europe Student Programme and regularly gives lectures on humanitarian photography for the brand at educational institutions.
She has received the Emergency Fund for Journalists grant from the National Geographic Society and the SOS Culture grant from VEGAP. She has also been awarded the f/DKV Fotografía Con Causa Prize, selected for the New York Times Portfolio Review, nominated for the Joop Swart Masterclass and three times for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award.
Ana contributes regularly to outlets such as National Geographic, The Guardian Weekend Magazine, CNN, El País Semanal, Die Zeit, 6 Mois, etc.
Her solo exhibitions have been shown at venues including the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid (Spain), the French Alliance in Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania) or the Casa de la Donne in Rome (Italy).
She is a regular lecturer in the La Fábrica-PHotoESPAÑA Master and at the Agencia EFE Master in Madrid.
Proud member of Women Photograph, Cómo Ser Fotógrafa and Photographic Social Vision.
She graduated in Journalism in University of Navarre (Spain), followed by Film and Photography studies in UCLA, Los Angeles (USA), where she lived for several years.
She worked as a journalist for the newsroom at Antena 3 Televisión, she has run communications departments, and for 17 years she has been working as a film production coordinator, particularly on international co-productions. She has worked with directors such as Ridley Scott, Milos Forman, Jim Jarmusch and Roman Polanski.
Since 2010, she produces documentary photography, related to human rights, environmental and animal welfare.
Her photographs raise awareness of childhood and women’s issues for various NGOs, including Manos Unidas, Africa Directo and UNICEF.
She photographs the world’s broken corners: orphanages, asylums, hospitals, psychiatric units, ghettoes and the like. Her intention is to make vulnerable communities visible thru constructive journalism.
She has lived alongside homeless women in India, lepers in China, albinos in Tanzania, tribes in Ethiopia, pygmies in Burundi and children at risk of social exclusion in Uganda, who have become the subjects of some of her work.
Then… the Pandemic arrived! And since then her stories are focused locally, mainly in Spain, documenting on health, environmental, and animal welfare issues.
She is a contributor to outlets such as National Geographic, The Guardian Weekend Magazine, CNN, 6 Mois, Al Jazeera, Stern, Der Spiegel, New Internationalist, Daily Mail, Terra Mater, Days Japan, XL Semanal, La Vanguardia Magazine, El País Semanal, among others.
In 2015 published her first book “Art in Movement” about art as a tool for social change in Uganda. In 2016, she published her second book “Albino” about the skin cancer of people with albinism in Tanzania. In 2018 she released her third book “Slave children: The Back Door” about the reinsertion of slave children in West Africa. She has also directed a film documentary on this last topic, available on Filmin.
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Ana Palacios’ photographies are in both private and public collections such as:
Production Coordinator for Film and Television for 17 years. (1998 – 2014).
Feature Films: Exodus, Kingdom of Heaven, Asterix at the Olympic Games, The Liberator, Intruders, The Inbetweeners, The Limits of Control, Goya’s Ghosts and The Dictator, among others.
She has worked for production companies such as the BBC, Fox, Universal, Paramount, etc. and with directors Ridley Scott, Michael Radford, Jim Jarmusch, Tony Kaye, Milos Forman and Roman Polanski among others.
BA in Journalism, from the University of Navarre, Pamplona. (1990 – 1995).
Master Certificate Program in Film & TV, in UCLA. Los Angeles, USA. (1996 – 1997).
Various courses of Film production, Photojournalism, Cultural Project Manager, etc. at the University of California, San Francisco, University of California, Los Angeles and University of Navarre.