This project reflects on the important roles played by women in our societies, focusing on their inner resilience and quiet strength.
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Tradition and patriarchy often lead to women having less rights and being more vulnerable. Rather than looking at them from that perspective, Angelica focuses on the key roles they play to strengthen these same societies that so often silence them. Like tranquil warriors, they nurture and protect the group and those most vulnerable within it, raise new generations and care for the old, often while remaining invisible and voiceless.
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Protectors
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Fighters and survivors
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The heart of the comunity
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Guardians of tradition
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Work and self-improvement
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Angélica Arbulú
The story-chaser"Angelica’s strength, capturing people and places and making the everyday look beautiful and exotic" -Graduated in clinical psychologist with an MA from John Hopkins University in International Relations, Angelica has dedicated the last 18 years to the development and humanitarian sector. After working in the private sector as a strategy analyst and six years with the UN she became an independent advisor on humanitarian/ development programmes. Her clients include UN agencies, governments and foundations.
Photography, however, has been her passion from an early age. Angélica begun studying photography in 1990 in the Center for Visual Arts (CEV) in Madrid. She is mostly self-taught but has undertaken workshops with Chien-Chi Chang (Magnum), Ron Haviv (VII) and Tito Herrera (STUDIO at Getty Images). She was lucky to receive mentoring from the late Tim Hetherington (Magnum), winner of the World Press Photo of the year award.
Through her field work Angélica has experienced first-hand the inequalities and uniqueness of our world and she has used the camera as a tool to make sense of her encounters. Her images are filled with both curiosity and compassion.
She had her first solo exhibition in 1993 and has exhibited solo and in groups in Europe, Asia and the United States.
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Read the stories
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