• PHOTOGRAPHY • SCREENWRITING • DOCUMENTARY • CREATIVE WRITING • PRESS • COPYWRITING • TRANSLATIONS • PROFILES • BLOGS •
Laura is a writer, photographer, and traveller born in Medellín, Colombia, who has been exploring the world with a camera for decades. Since graduating from Creative Writing at Brisbane’s Queensland University of Technology, remote work has made it possible for her to keep losing herself in both planned and unexpected adventures while capturing the places she visits and the people she meets with love, curiosity, and the innate desire to adapt to each of her new surroundings as she continues on her journey.
She strongly believes that celebrating our differences will bring us closer together, that diversity is our greatest strength, and that understanding other cultures and points of view are the most effective ways to open people’s minds and hearts. And that storytelling, whether through photography or writing, is the greatest tool we have to share the mundane and extraordinary characteristics that connect humans from completely different backgrounds.
Her passion for different disciplines and storytelling tools have led her to participate in projects ranging from documentaries, short films, and journalistic reports, and she has also participated in photography exhibitions in Colombia and New York City. Her work has also been featured in magazines and websites.
She hopes to create a colourful catalogue of images and stories from all the places she’s visited as a testament to the natural and human beauty and diversity of our planet, and to have the opportunity to photograph more people and places in the years to come.
She’s currently working in Medellín, photographing locals and visitors who want to capture their time in the City of Eternal Spring through natural and dynamic portraits.
Photography
- Group exhibition Diálogo Entre Ciénagas for Museos Para la Paz at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá (November 2024)
- Photography for Gäelia Beach website (2024)
- Photograph shown at the Foley Gallery in New York City as part of an exhibit by The Print Swap in July 2021
- Photograph shown at Photoville 2018 in New York City as part of Feature Shoot and The Print Swap‘s Like a Dream show
- Photograph featured in NatGeo Media (China) (March 2021)
- Photograph featured in El Espectador — Guardianes del Futuro (December 2014)
- Photograph for Revista Vive — El Amor Convencional (June 2014)
- Photograph for Revista Vive — Vive la Sazón (March 2014)
Screenwriting
- Lugar Común directed by Gina Medina for the CHEF Film Fest (Medellín, 2024)
Documentary
- Yaigojé Apaporis – conocimiento tradicional, el corazón en proteger la Amazonia Colombiana (interpreter, translator, sound, still photography)
Creative Writing
Press
- Protestas por la tala del árbol de caucho — El Espectador, febrero 17, 2014
Copywriting
- Clos San Quilico newsletter for Mirabelle Selects
- Domaine Girard newsletter for Mirabelle Selects
Translations
- How America’s Abortion Wars Went Global by Jill Filipovic & Nichole Sobecki (interpreter for field work)
- How US Abortion Politics Distorts Women’s Lives in Conflict Zones by Jill Filipovic & Nichole Sobecki (interpreter for field work)
- The Stories You Never Forget by Jill Filipovic & Nichole Sobecki (interpreter for field work)
- Migrant women are at the mercy of foreign powers for access to contraception by Jill Filipovic & Nichole Sobecki (interpreter for field work)
- No Choice: Reporting on Sexual Violence in Refugee Contexts, webinar featuring Jill Filipovic & Nichole Sobecki discussing the work posted above
- Nichole Sobecki: “Laura was one of the absolutely remarkable women that we worked with in the process of doing this reporting, and none of it—it would not have happened without her, so I just wanted to, you know, acknowledge her being here and thank her.” (watch at 01:12:44) 🤍
Profiles
- Minivan News — author archive
*note: Minivan News has since closed and all the articles have been put in this archive page; not all my articles have been credited to my name and might not appear in this collection.
Blogs
- World’s Best Beaches from the Eyes of 15 Girl Travelers — Huffington Post / Ana’s World
- The World’s Most Surreal Landscapes — Ana’s World
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