We are thrilled to announce Marilene Ribeiro is taking part in the Photoworks Digital residency this November! Learn more about Marilene across this month to reflect on the environmental and human rights topics she addresses with her work. You can find her biography below and an overview of her practice in the button below or through this link.
Biography
Marilene Ribeiro is a Brazilian visual artist and researcher. Her practice is focused on the environmental and the Human Rights agendas, with a decolonial gaze from the Global South. Her projects are engaged in the political agency of photography and in the role of image-based media in society.
Ribeiro has been nominated on the PhMuseum as one of the 12 women photographers to watch worldwide. She has been awarded the PHotoESPAÑA Discoveries Award (Spain), the Royal Photographic Society Award (UK), the POY Latam Carolina Hidalgo Vivar Environment Photography Prize (Latin America), the Earth Photo-Photoworks Award (UK), the National Arts Foundation Marc Ferrez Photography Prize (Brazil), and has been shortlisted to Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles Photo Book Award (France), Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award (UK), Pierre Verger Photography Prize (Brazil), amongst others. She has works exhibited internationally and articles featuring her works published on platforms such as The Guardian, LensCulture, VIST Projects, The Royal Photographic Society Journal, and Viens Voir.
She is a member of ‘Foto Féminas’ and ‘Women Photograph’ and a collaborator of ‘Fast Forward: Women in Photography’ and the ‘Latin America Bureau’. She was trained by Magnum Photos and the Central Saint Martins of the University of the Arts London/UK, and holds a PhD in Creative Arts awarded by the University for the Creative Arts/UK and a MSc in Ecology & Wildlife Conservation and Management awarded by the Federal University of Minas Gerais/Brazil.
