​Ana Maria Arévalo Gosen (Caracas, Venezuela. 1988) is a fighter for women's rights and her weapon is visual storytelling. Mixing rigorous research with intimate stories, she wants to make a positive impact through her projects. She strongly believes that this approach has the power to fight social injustice.

In 2009 Arévalo moved to Toulouse, France where she studied Political Science and Photography. Arévalo lived in Hamburg, Germany for five years and currently she is based in Bilbao, Spain. She is fluent in Spanish, English, French and German.

The meaning of life is her most challenging work. It is the intimate story of her husband's fight against testicular cancer. They raise awareness about the disease and gather funds for the male cancer cause.

In 2017 Arévalo returned to Venezuela to work on her first long-term project Dias eternos. For two years she photographed and interviewed women in preventive detention centers and prisons in the country to document their conditions of imprisonment. Her ambition is to carry on this work in the rest of Latin America and become an expert in women's rights. 

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EDUCATION & ACCOLADES

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• May 2020 finalist of the International Women in Photography  Association awards. 

• February 2020 National Geographic Society explorer

• January 2020 winner of the Lucas Dolega International Price

• December 2019 participant of the Women Photograph Workshop in Quito, Ecuador and portfolio review winner 

• 2019 honorable mention in PH Museum women photograph grant 

• September 2019 selected to expose at the MANIFESTO Festival in Toulouse.

• May 2019 1st Place POY Latam in "the strength of women" category.

• Shortlisted for Getxophoto Open Call 

• March 2019 Nomination Joop Swart Masterclass  

• July 2018 RISC Training in Sarajevo 

• August 2018 Pulitzer Center On Crisis Reporting Travel Grantee

• July 2018 Women Photograph + Nikon Grantee 

• June 2018 Selected for the Triennal of Photography Hamburg PortfolioMatch

• April 2018 Selected for the New York Times Portfolio Review

• April 2017 Participant of a workshop with Patrick Zachmann at LFI Hamburg.

• January 2017 supported by Leica to produce The Meaning of Life project.

• July 2016 supported by Leica to continue with the Love Poem project for a year.

• June 2016 selected for All at Once Visual Story Telling workshop with VII Photo Agency in Barcelona, Spain.

• April 2016 participant of a workshop with Jacob Aue Sobol at LFI Hamburg.

• March 2016 Selected for a workshop with Gute Aussichten at Deichtorhalle, Hamburg.

• July 2012 Internship in AFP, Paris France.

• 2011-2013 ETPA School of Photography, Toulouse, France.

• 2010-2011 Political Sciences in Sciences Politiques Toulouse, France.

• 2006-2009 Liberal Arts in Metropolitan University, Caracas Venezuela.

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