Information - Judith Prat

Biography

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With a degree in Law and a specialisation in Human Rights, she later trained in photography and decided to pursue it professionally. She has worked in Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa, documenting issues related to human rights, territory, and collective memory, with a particular focus on the situation of women.

In her latest projects, she delves into the research processes that precede the photographic act and explores visual narratives that establish a connection between images and critical thinking, as she believes that it is through this relationship that photography has the power to transform individual sensitivity as well as collective consciousness.

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Her work has earned her numerous awards, including the Imagen Award from the Spanish Geographical Society (2023), the Sabina de Plata for her professional career (2021), and the Artes & Letras Photography Award (2017). She has been selected for the New York Times Portfolio Review and has received the BBVA Foundation Leonardo Research Grant in Communication, as well as the Albarracín Photography Seminar Grant. Her projects have also been recognised and awarded in international festivals and competitions such as the Prix de la Photographie Paris, the Julia Margaret Cameron Award (UK), the Photofest Award (Mexico), and the International Photography Awards (USA). She has been nominated for the Gabriel García Márquez Awards and for World Press Photo’s 6×6 Global Talent Programme.

In recent years, she has held over one hundred exhibitions. Her photographic work has been shown in Spain at institutions such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Círculo de Bellas Artes, and PhotoESPAÑA, as well as in cities around the world, including Bogotá, Paris, Moscow, Avignon, Montreal, Quebec, and Querétaro. She has also taken part in major international events such as the World Social Forum (2021) and the Havana Biennial (2024).

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Her work has been featured in media outlets such as The New York Times, Al Jazeera and The Guardian. She has published two photobooks: MATRIA and BRUJAS (presented in 2025). As a documentary filmmaker, she has directed the short films You, sit down! and They said she was a witch.

She also gives lectures and masterclasses on her work at universities, cultural organisations and institutions, and regularly serves as a jury member in international photography contests and festivals.

Individual Exhibitions

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– Embassy of Spain in Andorra, 2025. WITCHES
– Fine Art Igualada, 2025. WITCHES
– Havana Biennial, 2024. WITCHES
– Cervantes Institute in Toulouse, 2024. WITCHES
– International Photography Festival Calamuchita, Argentina, 2024. WITCHES
– National Park Theater, Bogotá, 2024. Boko Haram: A War Against Them
– University of Cuenca, 2024. Coltan
– Museo Gaya Nuño, Soria, 2024. WITCHES
– l’Estacio Art Center, Dénia, 2024. WITCHES
– Andalusian Center of Photography, Almería, 2024. WITCHES
– Museo Barjola, Gijón, 2023. WITCHES
– PHotoESPAÑA, 2023. WITCHES
– Center of Histories, Zaragoza, 2023. WITCHES
– Central Library Santa Coloma de Gramenet, 2023. Plunder
– Municipal Museum of Albacete, 2022. Matria
– Cervantes Institute in Brussels, 2022. Boko Haram: A War Against Them
– Plaza de la Virgen Blanca, Vitoria, 2022. Transits and Traffics: Markets that Kill
– Manuel Benito Moliner Cultural Center, Huesca, 2022. Matria
– Latitudes Festival, Exhibition Hall, University of Huelva, 2022. Matria
– Espiello International Documentary Film Festival, 2022. Ciudad Juárez: Women in Struggle
– World Social Forum, Mexico, 2021. Plunder
– Méndez Núñez Gardens, A Coruña, 2021. Matria
– Congress Palace, Huesca, 2021. Ciudad Juárez: Women in Struggle
– Photographic Society of Gipuzkoa, 2021. Plunder
– IAACC Pablo Serrano, Zaragoza, 2020. Matria
– Palacio Molina, Cartagena, 2020. Plunder
– Kiosko Alfonso Exhibition Hall, A Coruña, 2019. Boko Haram: A War Against Them
– Imaginaria Festival, Octubre Gallery, Ágora University, Castellón, 2019. Plunder
– House of Cultures, Zaragoza, 2019. Ciudad Juárez: Women in Struggle
– ESDIR School of Design of La Rioja, Logroño, 2019. Plunder
– Cloître Saint-Louis, Avignon, 2018. Plunder
– BilboArgazki, UPV-BBK Building, Bilbao, 2018. Nigeria: North and South of the African Giant or the Reason Behind Boko Haram
– Femme in Arts Festival, Amposta, 2018. Women in Conflict
– PHotoESPAÑA, 2018. Plunder
– Citadel of Pamplona, 2017. Plunder
– Congress Palace of Vitoria, 2017. Nigeria: North and South of the African Giant or the Reason Behind Boko Haram
– Maison du Développement Durable, Montreal, 2016. Coltan
– Alumbre Exhibition Hall, Ciudad Real, 2016. Nigeria: North and South of the African Giant or the Reason Behind Boko Haram
– Zoom Photo Festival Saguenay, Quebec, 2015. Coltan
– Galería Libertad, Querétaro, Mexico, 2015. The Guitarist
– Centro Joaquín Roncal CAI, Zaragoza, 2015. Health and Women in Cuba
– El Trapiche, Granada, 2014. Coltan
– House of Cultures, Zaragoza, 2014. Coltan
– FOTOS, Barcelona, 2013. Manchester
– Pati Llimona Cultural Center, Barcelona, 2013. The Light: Port Slums

Collective Exhibitions

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City of Paris, Grilles de Square de la Tour Saint-Jacques, 2024. La Vía Campesina
International Photography Festival of Matanzas, 2024. Coltan
Patio de la Infanta, Zaragoza, Spain, 2023. The Disasters of War
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2020. With Three Wounds I
DKV Center for Photography for Social Causes, Zaragoza, 2020. COVID Photographic Diaries
PHotoESPAÑA 2020, Madrid, 2020. Time Suspended
Parliament of Cantabria, Santander, 2020. Western Sahara: Not a Country for Journalists
Palau de la Generalitat, Barcelona, 2019. Photojournalists: Views on Gender-Based Violence Around the World
Barjola Museum, Gijón, 2019. Creators of Conscience
La Lonja, Zaragoza, 2019. Creators of Conscience
Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, 2019. Creators of Conscience
La Lonja, Zaragoza, 2019. A Certain Light: Women Photographers from Aragon
IAACC Pablo Serrano, Zaragoza, 2018. Images for Diversity and Integration
Palau Robert, Barcelona, 2018. Creators of Conscience
Municipal Heritage Museum of Málaga, 2014. International Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography (World Photography Gala Awards)

Awards

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Nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2025
Nominated for the Simón Film Awards 2024
Portfolio Review by The New York Times 2023
IMAGEN Award, Spanish Geographical Society 2023
Sinyal Mayestros Award, Espiello International Documentary Film Festival 2022
Sabina de Plata for Professional Career 2021
Nominated for the Gabo Awards 2021 (COVID Photographic Diaries Project)
Candidate for the 6×6 Global Talent Program, World Press Photo 2019
Award from the Aragonese Association of Photojournalists 2021 (COVID Photodiaries Project)
Artes & Letras Photography Award 2017, Spain
Human Nature Photojournalism Contest 2015, Canada
Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2014, United Kingdom
Photofest Award 2014, Mexico
Prix de la Photographie Paris 2014, France (Gold in Press Reportage category)
International Photography Awards (IPA) 2014, USA (3rd place in General News and Honorable Mention in Photo Essay and Reportage)
Moscow International Foto Awards 2014, Russia (1st Prize in Environment category)
Best of Sigma Photography Contest 2014, USA (Finalist)
International Photography Awards (IPA) 2013, USA (Honorable Mention in Photo Essay, Reportage, and General News categories)
Grant from the Albarracín Photography and Journalism Seminar 2013, Spain
Finalist, Grant of the PHOTON International Photojournalism Festival 2011, Spain

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Nominated for the Simón Film Awards, 2024
Nominated for the Fugaz Short Film Awards, 2024
Premio Sinyal Mayestros, Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Sobrarbe, 2022

Scholarships

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Leonardo Research Grant in Communication and Information Sciences, BBVA Foundation 2018, Spain
Grant from the Albarracín Photography and Journalism Seminar 2013, Spain
Finalist, Grant of the PHOTON International Photojournalism Festival 2011, Spain

Publications

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Prat, Judith (2023). They Said She Was a Witch
Prat, Judith (2016). You, Sit Down

(Photobooks)

Prat, Judith (2025). BRUJAS. Spain: La Fábrica. ISBN: 978-84-1002-429-8
Prat, Judith (2020). Matría. Spain: Gobierno de Aragón. ISBN: 978-84-8380-431-5
Prat, Judith (2017). Expolio. Spain: África Imprescindible. Depósito Legal: NA2713-2017

(Other)

Prat, Judith (2022). Feminist Vindication, 1976. In L. Terré (Ed.), Photography Speaks of Revolutions (n.p.). Fundación Mapfre. ISBN: 978-84-9844-825-2
Prat, Judith. (2020). Neighbors of the Moon. In Jineth Bedoya (Ed.), Voices of Women. UN Women.
Prat, Judith. Divina Campo Remiro. The Gaze of a Pioneer. Edited and written by Lara Albuixech, Lorena Cosba, Tamara Marbán, and Judith Prat. 2019, Provincial Council of Huesca. ISBN: 978-84-92749-84-3

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