Fabiola Ferrero
Journalist and Photographer
Covering Latin America
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Fabiola Ferrero is a journalist and photographer born in Caracas in 1991. Her background is in writing and investigative journalism. Her personal work explores themes related to politics, history, and collective memory. Her main focus of investigation is Venezuela, guided by the question: What’s our relationship to fantasy? Oil, memory, beauty and religion intersect in this research.
Interested in bringing opportunities to other newcomer photographers in the region, Fabiola founded Semillero Migrante in 2021, a mentorship program for emerging talents of Latin America that aims to democratize access to education in photography.
She was a jury member for the World Press Photo 2022 contest South American region and Magnum Foundation Fellow for the Social Justice Program in 2018.
She won the Carmignac Photojournalism Award 2021 and a World Press Photo in the Long Term Projects Category in 2023. She was a fellow at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination of Columbia University in Paris for the 23-24 cohort and is a current grantee of the Deloitte Photo Grant for her project Reinas.
Languages: Spanish, English, Italian, French.
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Fabiola Ferrero es periodista y fotógrafa nacida en Caracas en 1991. Inició su carrera con estudios de periodismo de investigación y escritura. Hoy, su trabajo personal explora temas relacionados a la política, la historia y la memoria colectiva. Su foco principal de investigación es Venezuela, guiada por la pregunta: ¿cuál es nuestra relación con la fantasía? Petróleo, memoria, belleza y religión atraviesan esta interrogante.
Interesada en dar oportunidades a otros talentos emergentes de la región, fundó el Semillero Migrante en 2021, un programa educativo gratuito para talentos emergente de América Latina que busca democratizar el acceso a la educación en fotografía.
Fue jurado del concurso World Press Photo 2021 para la región de Suramérica, y Fellow del programa de Justicia Social de la fundación Magnum en Nueva York.
Fabiola fue ganadora del Prix Carmignac 2021 y World Press Photo Long Term Project Category en 2023. Fue fellow del Institute for Ideas and Imagination de Columbia University en París por la cohorte de 23-24 y actualmente es becaria de Deloitte Photo Grant con su proyecto Reinas.
AWARDS/RECONOCIMIENTOS
2025. Winner. IILA Photo Award for the project Looking for the Olive Trees.
2024. Winner. Deloitte Photo Grant for the project Reinas.
2024. Nominated. Premios Gabo de Periodismo de Hiberoamérica in the Photography Category. Project Rastros de una promesa
2024. Shortlisted. Vogue Panorama Latinoamericano. Best 40 talents of the region.
2023. Winner. World Press Photo, Long Term Projects Category. South America. Project I Can’t Hear the Birds
2023. Honorable Mention. Picture of the Year International. Long Term Projects Category. Project I Can’t Hear the Birds
2021. Winner. Carmignac Photojournalism Award.
2021. Winner. 6Mois Photojournalism Award.
2021. Winner. Inge Morath Award. By Magnum Photos + Magnum Foundation.
2021. Finalist. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund.
2021. Winner. Getty Images Grant for Programs Award given to Semillero Migrante initiative.
2021. Honorable Mention. Lucie Foundation Scholarship, category Photo Taken.
2021. Winner. FotoEvidence Book Award - Red Flag, with Covid Latam collective.
2020. Winner. Magnum Foundation Covid-19 Projects Grant.
2020. Shortlisted. Leica Oscar Barnack Newcomer Award.
2020. Shortlisted. Alexia Grant.
2020. Selected. The 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch.
2020. Shortlisted. Marilyn Stafford Fotoreportage Award.
2020. Jury’s Pick. Daylight Photo Awards.
2020. Winner. Experimenter Art Production Grant.
2020. Winner. National Geographic Society Covid-19 Emergency Fund, Ruda Colectiva.
2020. Winner. Meedan Covid-19 Grant, Ruda Colectiva.
2019. 30 under 30 Women Photographers. ARTPIL.
2019. Joop Swart Masterclass participant. World Press Photo Foundation.
2019. Winner. Grant from Critical Refugee Studies Department, UCSD.
2018. Winner. World Press Photo 6x6 Talent Program South America.
2018. Winner. Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellowship.
2018. Winner. VII Mentor Program.
2018. Participant. Eddie Adams Workshop XXXI
2018. Nominated. Elliott Erwitt Havana Club Grant.
2018. Winner. PHM Women Photographers Grant New Generation Prize Honorable Mention.
2018. Shortlisted. PH Museum Grant.
2017: Winner. Emerging Vision Award by The Documentary Project Fund.
INTERVIEWS/ENTREVISTAS:
Podcast Cracker l’epoque: une géographie de la nostalgie, pt I
Podcast Cracker l’epoque: une géographie de la nostalgie, pt II
Vist Projects: A Coca Family Narrates itself
TIME: State of Ruin: Tales from Venezuela's Collapse
Interview with Geopolis (French)
World Press Photo: Sometimes Blurred
Nieman Reports: Covering a collapsing nation
PH Museum: The psychological turmoil of a nation
Fabiola Ferrero: Arte, poesía y emoción
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