Ana María Arévalo Gosen

Arévalo Gosen believes the power of photography can raise awareness as well as a change toward social justice. She is an advocate for women's rights and a feminist.^[2]

She primarily works in Spain and Venezuela.^[1] In 2013, she moved to Hamburg, Germany and began working on project titled Hamburg Calles.^[3]

In 2017, after she encounters an old acquaintance at a wedding who introduces her to a journalist, she begins her project titled, Dias Eternos. This project focuses on detained women awaiting trial surviving overcrowded detention centers with substandard living conditions.^[4] Many of these innocent women awaiting trial are detained months and even years.^[5]

Arévalo Gosen has earned many awards including the Women Photograph+Nikon scholarship in 2018;^[6] Lucas Dolega prize in 2020;^[6] the Lumix photo award in 2020;^[6] the Camille Lepage prize in 2021;^[6] and the Leica Oskar Barnack prize in 2021.^[6]

Arévalo Gosen's most notable projects include Hamburg Calles (2015);^[7] The Meaning of Life (2016–2017);^[8] Dias Eternos (2017);^[9] and Women Water Defenders (2021).^[10]

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