Lua Ribeira (born 1986)[1] is a Galician photographer, based in Bristol in the UK.[2] She is interested in "using the photographic medium as a means to create encounters that establish relationships and question structural separations between people."[3] She is a Nominee member of
Magnum Photos and was joint winner of the Jerwood/Photoworks Award in 2017. Her series Noises is about femininity and British
dancehall culture.
Life and work
Ribeira, originally from
Galicia Spain, currently lives and works in the UK.[2] She initially studied media and graphic design, earning a degree from the BAU School of Design in Barcelona,[4] before deciding to become a photographer.
In 2015, she was awarded the Firecracker Photographic Grant for her project Noises in the Blood (also known as Noises). Produced between 2015 and 2019, it is inspired by Jamaican
dancehall culture in the UK.[1][6][7][8] The title is a reference to the book Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender, and the”Vulgar” Body of Jamaican Popular Culture by author and literary scholar
Dr. Carolyn Cooper.[9]
2015: Firecracker Photographic Grant for Women in Photography[13]
2015: Reginald Salisbury Fund (USW)
2017: Magnum Graduate Photographers Award, Magnum Photos[14]
2018: Joint winner,
Jerwood/
Photoworks Awards, with Sam Laughlin and Alejandra Carles-Tolra[15]
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
Noises in the Blood, Kickplate Gallery, Abertillery, Wales, 2016;[16][17] Fotoraum Gallery, Art Cologne, Germany, 2016;[17] Fishbar Gallery, London, May 2017;[6][18] Grain Photography Hub, Argentea Gallery, Birmingham, March–May 2018;[19]Noises,Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales, January–February 2019[20]
Group exhibitions
Jerwood/Photoworks Award winners,
Jerwood Space, London, January–March 2018;[1][21]Impressions Gallery, Bradford, April–June 2018.[1]Subida al Cielo (Ascent into Heaven) by Ribeira, Where We Belong by Alejandra Carles-Tolra, and A Certain Movement by Sam Laughlin.[22]