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Name: Morgana Vargas Llosa
Place and Date of Birth:
Barcelona 1974
Nationality:
Spanish and Peruvian
Permanent Address:
C/ Flora 1, 2B Madrid 28013
Educational Background:
1987-1990
St. Mary's School Ascot
Collingham Tutors of London
1992-1995
Bachelor of Science in History in the London School of Economics and Political Science University
of London (1992-1995)
Since 2003
Masters Degree in Development Management with the Open
University (England)
Work Experience:
1991
Eight month apprenticeship as a member of the Information and Communication Team in UNICEF, Peru.
1993
Six week photography
course in Paris with Phillippe Vermés. Worked as his assistant.
1995
Three month internship in the newspaper "El Pais" (Spain).
1996-1998
-Regular freelance work for "El Pais".
-Freelance work for the Magazine
"El Pais Semanal".
-Freelance work for Caretas Magazine (Lima-Peru).
1999
Photographic reportage in Ecuador for the Nongovernamental Organization "Action Aid".
1999-2001
-Photo-journalist in the Kosovo Conflict.
Photographs published in "El Pais", "Paris Match", "Gente" (Argentina) and "Caretas".
-Photographs of the team of the United
Nations High Comisión for refugees (UNHCR) working in Kosovo for their archives
in Geneva.
-Freelance work for "Vogue Spain" and "Paris
Match".
-Photographs of the Carnival in Badajoz
(Spain) taken for an exhibition in the Contemporary Art Museum of Badajoz
(Spain).
2002
Spent
the year preparing a photography book about the main characters
of Mario Vargas Llosa´s new novel “El Paraíso en la otra
esquina”. This included travelling to Peru, French Polynesia,
France and England, following the traces of the painter Paul
Gauguin and his grand mother, the feminist social rights
activist Flora Tristán. The book was published in Spain and
Latin America by the Spanish editorial “Alfaguara”.
2003
-Photographic
reportage of immigrants in Castilla y León as part of a Campaign
carried out by the regional government to integrate immigrants
in the region. The photos were exhibited in Valladolid, made
into a video and reproduced in different publications.
- Emergency aid project communications manager in Baghdad
with the NGO Fundación Iberoamérica Europa for 6 months after
the end of the war.
2004-2006
-Published a photography book of the spanish painter/sculptor
Manolo Valdés.
-Covered the Israeli disengagement from Gaza
for El Pais.
-Preparing a book on Chamans in Peru which will be published
shortly.
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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" as part of
PhotoEspaña,
in 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): Exhibition “Castilla y León, una región
para todos” in the employment convention LABORA, in the official
PAVILION of the Regional Government.
April, Exhibition of a selection of pictures chosen from the
book “Las Fotos del Paraíso”.
- Madrid, Casa de América.
- Colombia, Museo Callejero de Bogotá.
- Lima, Galería de Lucía de la Puente.
- Santiago, Chile.
2004
- Lima: “Bagdad Día a Día”,
Trapecio Gallery.
- Paris: “Las Fotos del Paraíso”,
Cervantes Institute.
2005
-Bucharest: “Las Fotos del Paraíso”,
Carturesti Bookstore
Language skills:
Spanish: Native Speaker
English: High Level
French: High Level
Italian: Intermediate Level
Personal Interests:
Travelling, Literature, Films and Animals.
Volunteer of "ANAA" (Friends of the Animals National Association) |
