exhibitions /AWARDS
W. Eugene Smith Grant - 2024
Leica Oskar Barnack / Shortlist - 2024
World Press Photo Award - 2024
Award of Excellence / Picture Of The Year International - 2024
LSI Women In Photography Grant - 2023
Visa Pour L’Image Remi Ochlik Award - 2019
Reuters Photojournalism Grant - 2019
The Fence / United Photo Industries - 2019
Ian Parry's Highly Commended Award - 2017
Adobe's Rising Star - 2017
Photoville Emerging Artist - 2016-2017
Latin American Fotografia / LOS DIEZ - 2016
Venice Art Biennale - 2013
CONTRIBUToR FOR /
The New York Times
The Washington Post
Bloomberg
Save The Children
I am a freelance photojournalist currently based in Caracas, Venezuela.
My work focuses on social conflict, environmental issues and Human Rights, through the prism of youth. It has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, Der Spiegel, among others. I am currently a frequent contributor for The New York Times in South America. Ranging from long-form, personal work to breaking news, my aesthetic is looking to balance journalism with intimacy.
I have a background in traditional investigative journalism, earned through a Master's Degree in Journalism from Columbia University in the city of New York, where I was a fellow at the Global Migration Program. My Master's Project, The Fear of The Others, a photographic essay about youth and gang violence in Long Island, earned Honors and was published by The Intercept. On that same year I attended New York Times Student Journalism Institute as a photojournalist and earned an honorable mention for my work. You can expect journalistic rigor in my work, specially in long-term projects.
I was trained in hostile environment medical response by RISC and updated my hostile environment training in 2019 through a 5-day intensive HEFAT course.
I’m a member of Women Photograph and a former fellow at the Heinrich Böll Foundation, which funded a reporting project in North Africa to explore the migrant crisis. With the help of the W. Eugene Smith Grant, I am currently developing a new chapter for Paradise Lost, my ongoing project documenting Venezuela’s fall into authoritarianism, which I have been developing for the last 10 years.
“Adriana’s pictures are all heart. She’s so fully and deeply present in what she’s seeing and experiencing. She has a beautifully poetic understanding of color, light and shadow which is unusual in such a young photographer. Beyond that, she’s extremely courageous but also cognizant of her own fears and vulnerabilities which is an unusual combination.”