Gemma Miralda

My career has been mostly developed in the field of documentary photography. My starting point comes from interests with a sociological or anthropological base towards a specific topic and I develop it through an aesthetic and a narrative that offers a personal vision.
I feel comfortable when I can bring new meanings to the world by freely using photographic language. From the concretization of a theme, I like to explore the undefined spaces, the world that runs parallel to the official one, that which is not yet accepted. I like to play with ambiguity and look for imperfections that question established norms or simply redefine them.
Topics linked to nature have interested me since I was very young when, at the age of 12, I was already writing letters to the earth worried about its health. I am passionate about recognizing everything that humans have in common with other species and their interdependence. Since 2014, I have consistently worked on the links between humans and nature, always looking for the vestiges that remain of human collective forms that still live closely linked to the natural environment.
All this has led me to work alongside mountain shepherds in the Pyrenees for 7 years, a project that has been formalized with the book and exhibition The Sacred and the Real.
I understand the current Terra Vivit project as a continuation of the same theme in another context and which has special relevance for the European community.
In the professional field, I combine my projects with commercial commissions and photojournalism. In the teaching field, I regularly hold photography workshops and I have directed the online professional photography master's degree at ESDESIGN, Barcelona.