Freya Morales
UNDP
New York, NY, USA
FREYA MORALES
Photographer, writer and videographer
Born in Copenhagen (Denmark) 1972, Freya Ingrid Morales graduated in Journalism from the Universidad de Navarra (Spain) 1996, and started working as a stringer based in Copenhagen for the Spanish news agency Agencia EFE until mid 1999. That same year she began working as a journalist for the Danish NGO, DanChurch Aid. Received a European Masters in Conference Interpretation from the Copenhagen Business School in 2001. Between October 2002 and January 2011 she worked as a press officer at the Spanish Embassy in Copenhagen.
Freya studied the One Year Certificate in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York, graduating June 2012.
Back again in Copenhagen Freya assisted the Danish war photographer, Jan Grarup. Freelance photographer for Bloomberg News covering Danish economy and finances (Feb. 2013 - present), shooting still and video. This freelance work has been published among other in: TIME, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, LA Times, NY Daily News, Washington Post, USA Today, SF Gate, CNBC, Businessweek, ABC News, Bloomberg, Irish Times, Die Burger, Volksblad, Børsen, Jyllands-Posten, Berlingske Tidende. Other work published in El Pais, Politiken, and Kristeligt Dagblad.
Other clients: Novozymes, Lego Foundation, Dan Church Aid, ECHO, Lutheran World Federation.
Winner of the ENPI Jury Prize, 2014 .
Nominated twice to the UNICEF Photo of the Year Award: in 2012 for her work in Mogadishu Somalia, and in 2013 for her project on the the Syrian refugees living in hosting countries.
- Breaking news
- Conflict
- Corporate
- Editorial
- Interview
- Military embed
- Portrait
- Reporting
- Video capture
- Video editing
- Danish
- English
- Spanish
- French
- Norwegian
- Swedish
