Alexa Herrera is a photographer based in Mexico City....


Alexa Herrera is a photographer based in Mexico City. Her work mainly focuses on human rights, gender violence and enforced disappearance. Through different techniques she seeks to create visual narratives to portray stories and social problems from an empathetic perspective. In 2019 she studied at the Escuela Activa de Fotografia.

Herrera is part of the 2023 generation of the Seminario de Producción Fotográfica del Centro de la Imagen.


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Alexa Herrera es una fotógrafa que radica en la Ciudad de México. Su trabajo está enfocado principalmente en derechos humanos, violencia de género y desaparición forzada. A través de diferentes técnicas busca crear narrativas visuales para mostrar historias y problemáticas sociales desde una perspectiva empática. En 2019 estudió en la Escuela Activa de Fotografía.

Herrera es parte de la generación 2023 del Seminario de Producción Fotográfica del Centro de la Imagen.






Contact
aleglz456@gmail.com
5585477050

Instagram: gherrale



Exhibitions

2019 “La Candela”, Escuela Activa de Fotografía, Mexico City.

2019 “Escuela Activa de Fotografía: 45 Anniversary” organized by Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.



Publications

2020 Two pictures in “Mi Valedor” magazine, 27th Edition.
2023 "Afrochingonas: the young women that question feminism and themselves" by Pulsante.




Achievements

2020 International Photography Festival in Valparaiso, Chile, portfolio review.

2022 The New York Times, portfolio review.

2023 Finalist with the team of the mexican national media "La-Lista" in the Breach Valdez 2023 Awards for the investigation "Mexico: A country of child marriage" 

2023 Seminario de Producción Fotográfica del Centro de la Imagen fellow.


Interviews

2023 "Student perspective: Supporting the journalists who face hopelessness, trauma and threat to cover violence in Mexico" by Daniela Alcántara for the European Journalism Observatory.







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