Manuela Henao Documentary Photographer

Manuela embarks on her training as an audiovisual communicator by the University Rey Juan Carlos of Madrid, after completing her 5-year degree, moves to London where she completed a master degree in photography at the London College of Communication at the University of the Arts. Immediately after graduating, she traveled to Medellín, with the support of The Guardian newspaper (UK) and The Royal Photographic Society (UK) to produce a documentary photo series about women's culture and the understanding of women's bodies in the city. This reportage, title ¨Beauties¨, had a great reception, being published in media such as The Huffington Post, The Guardian and Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazine. The series was also awarded the Marco Pesaresi Award and the JGS Quarterly Photography Prize, Forward Thinking Museum. She has also had the opportunity to give talks at the London College of Communication and the City University of New York about her work. Currently, Manuela is developing personal documentary projects in the Colombian Pacific.

Awards

Emerging Photographer Flash Forward 2018, Magenta Foundation. Winner.

Marco Pesaresi Award 2015, Sifest24. Finalist.

JGS Quarterly Photography Prize, Forward Thinking Museum, 2015. Winner.

Joan Wakelin Bursary 2014, Royal Photographic Society/ The Guardian. Winner.

Exhibitions

"Buenaventura's Fortune" Umbral 2018 Collective exhibition, EAFIT University, Medellín, Colombia.

“Beauties" The Goa International Photo Festival, Goa, India, 2016.

"Liz looking under the bed” from the series “On the Benefit Life”, SELF Collective exhibition, IdeasTap funded. The Island Gallery, Bristol, UK. April 2014.

“On the Benefit Life”, Postgraduate final show, London College of Communication, London, UK.2013.

“On the Benefit Life”, 13/13 Collective, Dreamspace Gallery, London, UK. 2013.