Lurdes R. Basoli (Barcelona, Spain, 1981) is a graduate in Audiovisual Communication and has a degree in photojournalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Lives and works between Barcelona and San Sebastian. Since 2005, Basoli has worked for major Spanish media and international presence, as La Vanguardia Magazine, El País Weekly, The Magazine of El Mundo, Interviú, Maxim, GQ, Glamour, The Sunday Times Magazine, Foto8, Internazionale, La nation and El Universal. Among the awards he has received the Award ANI PixPalace are at Visa pour l'Image (2011), the Inge Morath Magnum Foundation Award (2010) and FotoPres grant from the "la Caixa" Foundation (2009). Some of his most outstanding works are: Caracas. The branch of the sky, a project on street violence to which he devoted two years; Ghosts Chernobyl, work on those who decided to return to live in the area affected by the nuclear disaster zone; and The Garden, a portrait of the world from the domestic and near vision of the photographer herself. Her photographs have been seen in international exhibitions at the Baku Museum of Modern Art (Azerbaijan), Floreal Gallery (Paris), Fotohof Gallery (Austria), the European Parliament (Brussels), Fotodokumentu (Poland), the Iberoamerican Art Fair ( Venezuela) and Nooderlicht Photofestival (Netherlands). In Spain, her work has been seen in places such as Casa America (Madrid), CaixaForum (Barcelona) and Dr. Nopo Gallery (Valencia).
