119 - Lua Ribeira

Lua Ribeira was born in 1986 in the autonomous community of Galicia, in the north of Spain. She received a BA Hons in Media Studies at the University of Vigo in 2009 and in 2010 she moved to Barcelona where she studied graphic dsesign and as a result discovered an interest in photography. Adopting it as a vocation, Lua moved to the U.K. where in 2012 she enrolled on the Documentary Photography course, at the University of South Wales She graduated with honors in 2016 and just two years later, Lua joined Magnum Photos as a Nominee. Her practice, characterized by its collaborative nature, is the result of extensive research and an immersive approach to the subject matter. To quote from her bio on the Magnum website, Lua “is interested in trespassing social barriers, and breaking the structural separation in relation to particular communities. By exploring the perception of life generated outside the strictly socially acceptable, she aims to question the morals and values she grew up by.” Lua is the recipient of the 2015 Firecracker Grant, the 2017 Magnum Graduate Photographers Award, and the 2018 Jerwood Photoworks Award. Her series Noises In The Blood, about Jamaican dancehall culture in the U.K. was published in book form by Fishbar in 2017. The series was also published in the book Firecrackers, Female Photographers Now (2017) Thames and Hudson Ltd.   On episode 119, Lua discusses, among other things: Her current project in MoroccoHer route to photography via graphic designNoises In The BloodRebelliousness and her ‘snapshot’ aestheticAristocratsSubida Al CieloBeing a Magnum Photos nominee   Website | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter “I guess you get to be a good photographer, or a good anything, by going deep enough into the hole. Dare to question things and question yourself just to go deep enough in your own questions. And also being rebellious, I think.”