Marilú Ortiz De Rozas

Writer, art curator, photographer.
She has published 16 books for adults and children, the first one, a biography of Chilean Cuban painter Mario Carreño obtained the Revista de libros of El Mercurio Award (2007). Another one, about whales, received Theobaldo de Nigris Award, in the USA (2017). The last one, in 2020: « Fomalhaut. A star’s story ».
Ortiz de Rozas has travelled all around the world as a journalist, and working for different NGO’s and International Organizations devoted to childhood, nature and vulnerable populations. She has published hundreds of photographs in magazines, newspapers, books, in Chile and abroad. She created two booklets with photographs about Central America for United Nations Development Program (UNDP), edited at Geneva, 1992, and in New York, in 1993.
“I am devoted to a photography that shows the world that surrounds us; the people that lives in it, or the powerful nature, that is disappearing”.

Marilú Ortiz de Rozas (Santiago, 1966)
PhD, Latin American Studies, Literature, Université de la Sorbonne-Nouvelle (2001), France; journalist from Universidad de Chile (1987)