ELISA PIÑEIRO FONT
Documentary photographer & researcher

I use photography to understand the stories we inherit, the places that shape us and the people we struggle to hold on to.

current work

Spain. 2019 - ongoing

A long-term photographic investigation into rural life, violence, animals, fire and the rituals that hold a community together.

FIERUMBRE

WORK

  • Fragments of a memory

    A documentary photography project exploring the fragmented and subjective nature of family memory through the story of Manuel Font Mármol, my grandfather, whose life was shaped by intense political involvement during some of the most significant events of the 20th century. Through photographs, documents, archival material and family memories, the project reconstructs a story that moves between the intimate and the collective, questioning what remains, what changes, and what disappears when a life is transmitted through the memories of those who survive it.

  • A Third in White

    A Third in White is a hybrid research and creative project that began with the chance discovery of a personal diary in central London in 2007. The notebook, labeled with the name CV Edwards and a mailing address, remained in the author’s possession for years.

  • Bomb Shelter

    Bomb Shelter is a photographic project that explores the role of theatre in Sarajevo during the longest siege in modern history (1992–1996). Despite extreme conditions, cultural life persisted, and theatre became both a physical shelter and a symbolic refuge. The project, developed in May 2025 at SARTR, Kamerni Teatar 55, and the Youth Theatre, was created as part of a Magnum Photos grant under the mentorship of Nanna Heitmann.

  • The House After

    This project begins with a return. For years, the journey to Galicia was a family ritual: a suspended time, repeated, almost immutable. That journey no longer exists. What remains is the present route and a house that is beginning to change after a recent death.

ELISA PIÑEIRO FONT

Documentary photographer and photo editor based in Spain.

Her work explores memory, territory, identity and the traces left by collective and personal histories.