bio/contact
[spanish]





Email nataliafavre@gmail.com
Phone +53 58870655
Currently in Buenos Aires, Argentina


Natalia Favre is a documentary photographer and visual storyteller based between Cuba and Argentina. Through long-term projects, she explores how migration, environmental change, and struggles over land shape everyday life in Latin America. Her work focuses on intimate narratives that reveal broader social and political transformations, combining photography, film, and multimedia storytelling.

Favre is a National Geographic Explorer, an Eddie Adams XXXV alumna, and a member of Diversify Photo and Women Photograph. Her work has been published by The Washington Post, National Geographic, Bloomberg, Reuters, BBC, and The Telegraph Magazine, among others.

She is the recipient of the 2022 Wil Riera Inspiration Award and has received support from the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists for a collaborative project on the Cuban migration crisis. In 2023, her work was exhibited at the Bronx Documentary Center’s Latin America Foto Festival in New York.She is one of the 2024 Art Works Projects fellows for photographers working on stories addressing climate change and environmental justice. Her project, "Maloneras, Seeds of Resistance,” focuses on the struggles of Indigenous women leaders in northern Argentina. Supported by the National Geographic Society, she is currently developing a new chapter of this project that explores the intersection of community-based rural tourism, Indigenous rights, and environmental conservation.


Grants and Awards

2025 National Geographic Explorer Leadership Training in Uruguay

2025 National Geographic Pictures of the Year

2025 Women Photograph Grant - Finalist

2025 IWMF  Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice Grant

2025 Hamburg Portfolio Review - Selected

2025 New York Portfolio Review - Selected

2025 Nominee Joop Swart Masterclass

2025 Nominee Leica Oskar Barnack Award


2024 National Geographic Society Grant 

2024 Art Works Projects Emerging Lens Fellowship

2024 Nominee Joop Swart Masterclass

2024 Latin America Panorama Festival by Photo Vogue - Selected

2024 Women Photograph Pictures of the Year - Selected

2023 Bronx Documentary Center Latin America Foto Festival

2023 Women Photograph Pictures of the Year - Selected

2022 Eddie Adams Workshop - Selected

2022 Wil Riera Inspiration Award

2022 IWMF Howard Buffet Fund for Women Journalists

2019 Identity Cinema Award/ International Festival of Expanded Corporality  

2018 Argentinian Human Rights Secretary Award: Afrodescendents, resistance, identity and ancestrality for her film “Sem folhas nao tem orixas”