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Luz M. Sosa Contreras: Fotógrafa [Los Silos, Tenerife, 1978]

Her view and interest for the people and the world surrounding her led her to specialize in the fields of photojournalism and documentary photography. Her main professional highlight is her job as a correspondent in Haiti for the Chinese agency XINHUA. She has collaborated with the renowned international news agency REUTERS and with the Spanish press agency EFE as a correspondent in the Dominican Republic, publishing her works in prestigious newspapers and magazines.

She has devoted her professional career as a freelance photographer to tasks of research and documentation for different NGOs, as well as to treat topics related to human rights, migration, cultural heritage or food sovereignty. Additionally, she holds an extensive track record of works associated with cultural divulgation.

She has conducted several photographic exhibitions, being the most prominent among them Isla para dos (An island for Two), about Haiti and the Dominican Republic at Centro de Arte Moderno del Atlántico (CAAM, or Atlantic Modern Art Center) in Gran Canaria, En el objetivo (Through the Lens), an exhibition about sustainable development objectives, Las Raíces (The Roots) a narrative and photographic retrospective about the individual life stories of the migrants coming to the Canary Islands from Northwestern Africa, Deporte para todas/os (Sports for Everyone) in Tenerife, and Pequeños pasos, los rostros del Párkinson (Step by Step: the many faces of Parkinson) in the Dominican Republic.

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Paula Fernández Hernández [Los Realejos, Tenerife, 1987]

She holds a PhD in Literature and Hispanic Cultural Studies from the University of Florida, in the United States. She did a Master’s Degree in Hispanic Literature from the Ethics of Diversity at the University of the Antilles, in Martinique and a Bachelor’s Degree in Hispanic Studies at the University of La Laguna, in the Canary Islands. She has worked as a teacher of Spanish as a second language in high schools, universities and adult education centres in several countries. She has worked as a research assistant at the University of Florida, as a literature teacher at Escuela Normal Superior de Puerto Principe in Haiti, and as a lecturer for the Online Diploma in Creative Writing for Caribbean Women in the Dominican Republic. She has attended several conferences on literature in Tenerife, Martinique, Florida, and New York, working, in some occasions, for the organizing committee of these events.

Her research interests focus on contemporary Caribbean and Canarian poetry from a feminist and decolonial perspective, paying special attention to environmental and territorial issues. Following these research lines, she has published several papers on the matter in international and national journals.

Throughout her life, she has participated in several cooperation projects. Currently, she is co-directing Ellas lavaron, a cultural project that intends to bring the testimonies of elder women from the Canary Islands to light, and Las Raíces, on the life stories of migrants from Northwestern Africa. Apart from that, she is currently working as a part-time lecturer for the Department of French at the University of La Laguna, as a reciter for the musical band Mar’a and as the co-founder of Canarias autoetnográfica (Self-ethnography in the Canary Islands).

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imagen de luz sosa contreras en blanco y negro

Luz M. Sosa Contreras: Fotógrafa [Los Silos, Tenerife, 1978]

Her view and interest for the people and the world surrounding her led her to specialize in the fields of photojournalism and documentary photography. Her main professional highlight is her job as a correspondent in Haiti for the Chinese agency XINHUA. She has collaborated with the renowned international news agency REUTERS and with the Spanish press agency EFE as a correspondent in the Dominican Republic, publishing her works in prestigious newspapers and magazines.

She has devoted her professional career as a freelance photographer to tasks of research and documentation for different NGOs, as well as to treat topics related to human rights, migration, cultural heritage or food sovereignty. Additionally, she holds an extensive track record of works associated with cultural divulgation.

She has conducted several photographic exhibitions, being the most prominent among them Isla para dos (An island for Two), about Haiti and the Dominican Republic at Centro de Arte Moderno del Atlántico (CAAM, or Atlantic Modern Art Center) in Gran Canaria, En el objetivo (Through the Lens), an exhibition about sustainable development objectives, Las Raíces (The Roots) a narrative and photographic retrospective about the individual life stories of the migrants coming to the Canary Islands from Northwestern Africa, Deporte para todas/os (Sports for Everyone) in Tenerife, and Pequeños pasos, los rostros del Párkinson (Step by Step: the many faces of Parkinson) in the Dominican Republic.

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imagen de Paula

Paula Fernández Hernández [Los Realejos, Tenerife, 1987]

She holds a PhD in Literature and Hispanic Cultural Studies from the University of Florida, in the United States. She did a Master’s Degree in Hispanic Literature from the Ethics of Diversity at the University of the Antilles, in Martinique and a Bachelor’s Degree in Hispanic Studies at the University of La Laguna, in the Canary Islands. She has worked as a teacher of Spanish as a second language in high schools, universities and adult education centres in several countries. She has worked as a research assistant at the University of Florida, as a literature teacher at Escuela Normal Superior de Puerto Principe in Haiti, and as a lecturer for the Online Diploma in Creative Writing for Caribbean Women in the Dominican Republic. She has attended several conferences on literature in Tenerife, Martinique, Florida, and New York, working, in some occasions, for the organizing committee of these events.

Her research interests focus on contemporary Caribbean and Canarian poetry from a feminist and decolonial perspective, paying special attention to environmental and territorial issues. Following these research lines, she has published several papers on the matter in international and national journals.

Throughout her life, she has participated in several cooperation projects. Currently, she is co-directing Ellas lavaron, a cultural project that intends to bring the testimonies of elder women from the Canary Islands to light, and Las Raíces, on the life stories of migrants from Northwestern Africa. Apart from that, she is currently working as a part-time lecturer for the Department of French at the University of La Laguna, as a reciter for the musical band Mar’a and as the co-founder of Canarias autoetnográfica (Self-ethnography in the Canary Islands).