About
Koral Carballo (Poza Rica, Veracruz, Mexico, 1987) is a Mexican documentary photographer and visual artist based between Veracruz, Puebla and Mexico City. Her work investigates new visual representations of themes that intersect her life/historical context, such as the violence of the drug war and the concept of postcolonial identity. Her photographic style is linked between poetic metaphor and cinematography working from an anti-patriarchal, decolonial and collaborative stance.
Her work has received the National Geographic Society Grant, Catchlight Global Fellow, POY LATAM's Nuestra Mirada award in second place, the Woman Photograph and Getty Images Grant, the Open Society Foundations Moving Walls 25 Fellowship, and received first place in the portfolio review of the Latin American Photography Colloquium (2017).
Her personal work has been published in the British Journal of Photography, Ph Museum, C&América Latina, Frezze Magazine, Vice Colombia, and Der Grief Magazine. She has been commissioned for Bloomberg News, The New York Times, California Sunday Magazine, Agence France Presse, Ruptly, NPR, Washigton Post, Animal Político among others.
She is a member of Foto Féminas, Fotógrafas en México, Frontline Freelance México, Diversify Photo and Women Photograph. She founded together with a group of photojournalists from Veracruz 2014 the International Festival of Journalistic and Documentary Photography Mirar Distinto in Mexico and currently co-produces.
Collaborates with Ruda Collective.
