Lua Ribeira

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Lua Ribeira (born 1986)[1] is a Galician photographer, based in Bristol in the UK.[2] She is a Nominee member of Magnum Photos and was joint winner of the Jerwood/Photoworks Award in 2017. Her series Noises is about femininity and British dancehall culture.

Life and work[]

Ribeira is from Galicia in Spain and now lives in the UK.[2] She studied documentary photography at the University of Wales, Newport, graduating in 2016.[1][3] She has lived in London,[4] Birmingham[5] and now Bristol.[2]

Ribeira's series Noises, about femininity and Jamaican dancehall culture in the UK,[1][4][5][6] was published as Noises in the Blood—as it was then known—in 2017.

She joined Magnum Photos as a Nominee in 2018.[7][8]

Publications[]

Publications by Ribeira[]

  • Noises in the Blood. London: Fishbar, 2017. Edition of 500 copies.

Publications with contributions by Ribeira[]

  • Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now. London: Thames & Hudson, 2017. By Fiona Rogers and Max Houghton. ISBN 978-0500544747.

Awards[]

  • 2015: Firecracker Photographic Grant[9]
  • 2017: Magnum Graduate Photographers Award, Magnum Photos[10]
  • 2018: Joint winner, Jerwood/Photoworks Awards, with Sam Laughlin and Alejandra Carles-Tolra[11]

Exhibitions[]

Solo exhibitions[]

  • Noises in the Blood, Kickplate Gallery, Abertillery, Wales, 2016;[citation needed] Fotoraum Gallery, Art Cologne, Germany, 2016;[citation needed] Fishbar Gallery, London, May 2017;[4][12] Grain Photography Hub, Argentea Gallery, Birmingham, March–May 2018;[13] Noises, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales, January–February 2019[14]

Group exhibitions[]

  • Jerwood/Photoworks Award winners, Jerwood Space, London, January–March 2018;[1][15] Impressions Gallery, Bradford, April–June 2018.[1] Subida al Cielo (Ascent into Heaven) by Ribeira, Where We Belong by Alejandra Carles-Tolra, and A Certain Movement by Sam Laughlin.[16]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Lua Ribeira, Sam Laughlin, and Alejandra Carles-Tolra show new work in Jerwood/Photoworks Awards". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "In Her Work Lua Ribeira Challenges Societal Norms and Her Own Preconceptions • Magnum Photos". Magnum Photos. 3 September 2018. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
  3. ^ "Ones to Watch: Lua Ribeira". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Show: Noises in the Blood by Lua Ribeira". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b "surprising photos of britain's subversive dancehall parties". I-d. 12 May 2017. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  6. ^ AnOther (26 May 2017). "Photos Capturing the Spirituality and Sexuality of Dancehall". Another Magazine. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  7. ^ "Magnum Photos' international new wave of Nominees". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  8. ^ "Magnum Photos Names 5 New Nominees". Photo District News. 27 June 2018. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  9. ^ "Firecracker – The Photographic Grant". www.fire-cracker.org. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  10. ^ Wheeler, Alex (28 April 2017). "Magnum announce Graduate Photographers Award 2017 nominees". International Business Times UK. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  11. ^ "Lua Ribeira, Alejandra Carles-Tolra and Sam Laughlin win the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 2018-09-23.[dead link]
  12. ^ "Surprising photos of britain's subversive dancehall parties". I-d. 11 May 2017. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  13. ^ "Noises in the Blood". grainphotographyhub.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  14. ^ "Noises". ffotogallery. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  15. ^ "Jerwood/Photoworks Awards - Jerwood Visual Arts". Jerwood Visual Arts. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  16. ^ "Jerwood/Photoworks Awards: new work by Alejandra Carles-Tolra, Sam Laughlin and Lua Ribeira". Impressions Gallery. Retrieved 2018-09-23.[dead link]

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