bio/contact
[spanish]
[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”
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”
