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Laia Abril

Laia Abril

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Profession: Documentary Photographer
Location: Cape Town , South Africa
Home base: Treviso, Italy
URL: http://www.laiaabril.com
URL: http://www.reportage-bygettyimages.com/#p=emerg...
Email: •••••••• (private)
Languages spoken: Catalan / Spanish / English / Italian
Organization: Fabrica / COLORS Magazine
Skype: Laia laia.abril
Google Talk: laiaabril@gmail.com
Mobile phone: + 34 646 17 06 97 (Spain)
Work phone + 39 392 79 32 690 (Italy)
Emergency notes: Contact +39 0422 516111.
Blood type: 0 Negative
Last login: about 1 year ago
Member since: 09 Oct 2007 18:10

About

Laia Abril, 24, is a documentary photographer raised in Barcelona. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and studied photography through different workshops and master classes, including at the ICP in New York City.

She began working on documentary projects in the Balkans, covering the events such as the 13th Funeral of Srebrenica and the Independence of Kosova, first for a Spanish NGO and then for Spanish newspapers. At the same time she was combining photography with her communication career as the Press Coordinator for the exhibition ‘World Press Photo08’ in Barcelona.

In October 2009, she started to work as a photographer, photo researcher and filmmaker in the issue #77 The Sea of COLORS Magazine at Fabrica ‘Benetton’s communication research centre’ publishing stories about I’ve Never Seen the Sea project becoming one of the 7 filmmakers & photographers of the accompanying Documentary.

Most recently she was Editor-In-Chief of the DANCE issue #78 of COLORS Magazine. and was awarded a second Fabrica scholarship to develop a personal photo project over the next year.

Laia Abril became an Emerging Talent on Reportage by Getty Images in November 2010.

She can be contacted for any assignments worldwide.

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URGENT CALL (COLORS Magazine)

Hello everyone,

This is an URGENT call for fresh stories for COLORS Magazine for our ‘Dance on YouTube’ issue.
We are looking for photo essays to publish, absolutely as SOON as possible.

Here is the angle we are interested in:
strong/unexpected/interesting VISUAL stories about a dance, or a dance event, or a dancer/dancers.

Please forward this to anyone you know who may be interested!!
All best, in haste,

COLORS Magazine
Contact:
laiaabril@gmail.com
skype laia.abril

30 Jun 2010 08:06 | 8 replies

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