Tatiana Fernández Geara
Women Photograph
Cabarete, Dominican Republic
After completing my undergraduate degree in Advertising Communications in Santo Domingo, I continued my studies in Milan, where I studied fashion and still life photography, while doing freelance work and assisting commercial photographers. After coming back to Dominican Republic, I got into documentary photography by chance when I volunteered as an interpreter for the 2008 Somos Foto workshop in Santo Domingo. Over the following years, I started attending photojournalism courses, like the Missouri Photo Workshop. I finally decided to leave advertising photography behind and spend time documenting stories and people’s daily lives. I was awarded the Fulbright scholarship for my Master’s in Journalism (Photojournalism) at the University of Missouri. After completing the program, I returned to my country to keep telling stories through images, working as a documentary filmmaker and freelance photographer/videographer for clients like The New York Times, Associated Press, Al Jazeera America, NPR, Human Rights Watch and others.
In 2013, I got the grant FONPROCINE to produce my first feature-length documentary film, "Nana", which premiered at the Havana Film Festival in 2015 and traveled around the festival circuit through 2016. In 2017 I once again got the grant FONPROCINE and the 2020 Su Mirada Award (IFF Panama) to produce my second feature, "Santo Domingo Waltz" (2021), which won Honorable Mention for Best Ibero American Film at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Guadalajara.
2020 - Su Mirada Award, 2017 - FONPROCINE, 2013 - FONPROCINE, 2011 - Fulbright
- Breaking news
- Crisis
- Editorial
- Entertainment
- Environment
- Interview
- Portrait
- Video capture
2020 Elections
Tatiana Fernández Geara
Luis Abinader, presidential candidate of the opposition Modern Revolutionary Party, greets the crowd while he is surrounded by journalists at a voting center during the presidential elections, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Sunday, July 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Tatiana Fernandez)
1937 Massacre
Tatiana Fernández Geara
Germéne Julien, 83, survived the 1937 Massacre of Haitians on the border with Dominican Republic. On assignment for NPR.
Calle 13
Tatiana Fernández Geara
Rene Perez, of Puerto Rico's band Calle 13, performs during a concert at the Presidente Festival at the Olympic Stadium in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Tatiana Fernandez)
