Paris Contradictorio No.09 / Edition 2 of 10 Photograph

Cristina Matos-Albers (b.1982) is a photographer and visual artist from Caracas, Venezuela. As an artist, she is interested in detail, structure and form, and her work frequently experiments with the fine line between registry and art. Cristina conceives light as a subject and not as means by which a photographer creates an image. She has photographed extensively across Europe and the Americas, and continues to participate in important art fairs and exhibitions internationally. Some of the most recent shows have been CONTACT Photography Festival (Toronto, Canada), Bitácora de Lugares Encontrados (Punta del Este, Uruguay), MeridaPHOTO (First Prize, Mérida & Caracas, Venezuela), IAFF-Iberoamerican ART FAIR (Seoul, S.Korea). In 2004, after receiving her B.A. in journalism, Latin American literature and photography from Ohio Wesleyan University (OH, USA), she moved to New York City where she started working at ABC News. But it was during her stay in the city when she started photographing rigorously. Upon her return to her native Venezuela, she continued freelancing as a full time photographer, doing commissioned work for commercial clients and publishing, mostly fashion editorials, for local magazines. She also started teaching in Caracas' most prominent photography school, Roberto Mata Taller de Fotografía, where she remained staff until 2013 when she moved to Toronto, Canada. Published by Alfaguara for latin america, Matos-Albers is the author of "Veo, Veo ¿Que ves? 1, 2, 3" a children's book that introduces photography and the art of seeing to a younger audience. Currently living in Punta del Este, Uruguay, she continues to divide her time between personal projects, commissioned work and teaching photography.