About Quintina Valero

Quintina Valero is a Spanish photographer with thirteen years’ experience developing and producing photo stories about human rights and humanitarian crises. Her latest projects about migration, sex trafficking, and the impact of Chernobyl’s nuclear accident have received international awards including the Lensculture Emerging Talents Award 2016 (The Netherlands), Festival della Fotografia Etica: Documenting Humanity 2016 (Italy) and the Photo Press Contest Award 2017 (Ukraine).

In 2015 she joined Food of War, a multidisciplinary art collective that explores the relationship between food and conflict to raise awareness of food consumption and its impact on the environment and communities.

Her work has been featured in The Guardian, Sunday Times, Thomson Reuter Foundation, Stern Magazine, Internationale, BBC, and El País among others. She has exhibited in Spain, UK, Ukraine, Germany, Italy, Ukraine, Colombia, and Brazil.