Tamara Merino
Women Photograph
Santiago, Chile
Tamara Merino, born in 1990, is an independent documentary photographer and visual storyteller based in Chile focusing on human and social issues, identity, gender and migration.
After graduating in 2013 with a degree in photography from the “Universidad del Pacífico” in Santiago - Chile, she made a residency of photography at the “School of Visual Arts” in New York, USA.
Her work has been published in multiple online and print publications worldwide including National Geographic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel, Wired, Fish Eye Magazine, Joia Magazine, Folha de Sao Paulo, Bloomberg, Roads and Kingdoms and Sydney Morning Herald, among others.
In 2015, Tamara was selected for the World Press Photo Latin America Masterclass and in 2016 she was a finalist for the Magnum Foundation's and Inge Morath Award. Her work is part of the Photographic Museum of Humanity PH-Museum and was exhibited in Washington D.C. as part of the 2017 World Press Photo side exhibition. In 2017, Tamara was awardee for the Foundry Photojournalism scholarship and was selected to participate in the "FIFV" International festival of photography in Valparaiso – Chile. At the end of 2017, she was selected for the Portfolio Review ERRANTE - International Photography Festival in Uruguay, where she was awardee for the Wabisabi Residency scholarship. In 2018 Tamara was selected for the 30 under 30 women photographers and for the World Press Photo 6x6 Global Talent Program. Tamara was a fellow in 2018 at the International Women’s Media Foundation IWMF and was selected to participated in the Eddie Adams Workshop XXI, where she won the Chris Hondros Fund. Tamara is also part of Women Photograph.
2018 - 30 under 30 women photographers., 2018 - PH Museum Grant., 2018 - World Press Photo 6×6 Global Talent Program., 2018 - International Women’s Media Foundation., 2018 - International Reportage. Foto Prensa. , 2018 - PH Museum Women Grant. , 2017 - Foundry Photojournalism, 2017 - Portfolio Review ERRANTE , 2017 - Wabisabi Recidency , 2017 - FIFV Internacional festival of photography , 2016 - Magnum Foundation and Inge Morath Award., 2015 - World Press Photo Masterclass., 2018 - Chris Hondros Fund.
- Breaking news
- Crisis
- Editorial
- Environment
- Landscape
- Portrait
- Reporting
- Still life
- Video capture
- Spanish
- English
- German
- Portuguese
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Tamara Merino
Gabriele Gouellain, a German immigrant, waits in the kitchen for her husband to return from mining. According to the Coober Pedy district council, about 60 percent of the town's residents are originally from Europe, having migrated to the area after World War II.
Coober Pedy is a small town located in the Australian outback that inhabits a subterranean culture, in which the majority of the population lives in underground houses called dugouts. It is an unconventional mining town where most of social and personal life takes place under the vast and lonely land itself and most of the residents go after the great wealth of opal, a valuable gemstone worth millions.
“Underland” documents communities living underground or in cave houses in different countries around the world and aim to illustrate the relationship human beings have with the environment that surrounds them.
Coober Pedy, Australia. SERIES UNDERLAND
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Tamara Merino
Trucks, cars, and junk from old machinery dot Coober Pedy´s landscape, waiting to be used as spare parts.
Coober Pedy is a small town located in the Australian outback that inhabits a subterranean culture, in which the majority of the population lives in underground houses called dugouts. It is an unconventional mining town where most of social and personal life takes place under the vast and lonely land itself and most of the residents go after the great wealth of opal, a valuable gemstone worth millions.
“Underland” documents communities living underground or in cave houses in different countries around the world and aim to illustrate the relationship human beings have with the environment that surrounds them.
Coober Pedy, Australia. SERIES UNDERLAND
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Tamara Merino
Joe Rossetto, an Italian immigrant, lives underground and operates a subterranean museum that holds his private collection of stones, fossils, opal, and antiques found in the desert around Coober Pedy.
Coober Pedy is a small town located in the Australian outback that inhabits a subterranean culture, in which the majority of the population lives in underground houses called dugouts. It is an unconventional mining town where most of social and personal life takes place under the vast and lonely land itself and most of the residents go after the great wealth of opal, a valuable gemstone worth millions.
“Underland” documents communities living underground or in cave houses in different countries around the world and aim to illustrate the relationship human beings have with the environment that surrounds them.
Coober Pedy, Australia. SERIES UNDERLAND