Morgana Vargasllosa

I was born in Barcelona in 1974, but moved to Lima, Peru after a long boat journey when I was 5 months old. I spent most of my childhood traveling with my family and constantly moving from one place to another. This has given me an amazing life experience, but has also proven challenging in many ways. It is difficult for me to be completely at ease in one place for a long time. My childhood definitely played a role in my choice of becoming a photojournalist, constantly on the move, always trying to capture and immobilize life around me.

I have worked professionally in photojournalism since 1996, mostly as a free lance photographer for the Spanish newspaper El País. Although based in Madrid for many years, my projects have included reportages from Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Albania, Kosovo and Israel/Palestine where I covered the retreat of Israeli troupes from Gaza, among others. Most of my work has been published in El País and EPS magazine.
I lived in Bagdad, Irak in 2003 whilst working for an NGO that provided emergency aid to the Iraqi people. I am currently based in Lima, working on personal photography projects through my NGO “Desvela”, which helps bring to light social issues in need of wider promotion. I have included here...

EXHIBITIONS
1994
Collective Exhibition - "El Perú de Mario Vargas Llosa" at
the Alcala de Henares University. 

1997
Collective Exhibition in Murcia (Spain) supporting the 0.7
Platform. 

1999 
Collective Exhibition - Especies de Espacios
PhotoEspaña, Madrid and Barcelona. 

2001 
Collective Exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum of
Badajoz. 

2002 
Collective Exhibition at the Alcala de Henares University
organized by the Association of Female Artists of Mexico
City, Mexico.

2003
- Valladolid (Spain): “Castilla y León, una región para
todos” in the employment convention LABORA, in the
official PAVILION of the Regional Government.

2013
'Melquiadina and Family' (Mírame, Lima), National Portrait Gallery, London, (nov 2012 - feb 2013).

2014
'Fishermen' (Mírame, Lima), The Beaney, Canterbury
(aug 2014 - nov 2014).
'Fishermen' (Mírame, Lima), National Portrait Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, (feb 2014 - may 2014).
- 'Fishermen' (Mírame, Lima), Cheltenham Art Gallery (june 2014 - july 2014).
- 'Fishermen (Mírame, Lima), National Portrait Gallery, London, (nov 2013 - feb 2014).
- Mírame, Lima in billboards in NY's Time Square, as part of the See.Me Award (jun).
- Mírame, Lima, The Fe...