artist bio |
(Madrid, 1983)
I use photography to understand the stories we inherit, the places that shape us and the people we struggle to hold on to.
I live in rural Spain, where I have learned that the most meaningful stories rarely reveal themselves quickly. I return to them again and again, sometimes for years, driven by a quiet stubbornness and the conviction that photography is less about finding answers than about learning about the questions. Through long-term visual essays such as Fierumbre, Un tercio en blanco, Libro de Familia I explore memory, identity, territory and the invisible threads that bind personal lives to collective histories.
Alongside my practice, I am pursuing a PhD at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, researching representation and visual culture through stock photography. Before dedicating myself to my own work, I spent more than fifteen years working as a photo editor and visual producer, an experience that deepened my understanding of how images circulate, shape meaning and remain with us.
CONTACT
Mail: elisapineiro@gmail.com
+34 663025944
Academic achievements
2023- TMIC Congresss - UCLM Presentacion of the doctoral work “Photography and gender diversity: proposal for a study on the representation of women in stock photography in the 21st century” (Nov, 2023)
2023- UCLM- Conducting the workshop “Feminizing the territory” within the framework of “Opportunities for Demographic Challenge” (May,2023)
2022 - CINCOMA (International Congress of Innovation in Communication and Audiovisual Media) Salamanca & Alicante University - Paper “Feminist Trends in the Productive Dynamics of Contemporary Stock Photography” in the discussion panel “Viz” in Media"!: Feminist discourses, non-normative and innovative representations in media, advertising and social networks. “ (Sep, 2022)
2022 - Publication: Contemporary stock photography and visual diversity the representation of women in Getty Images “Show Us”. Fragua, Spain. (Sept, 2022)
Exhibitions & Recognitions
2025
Portfolio selected for the Descubrimientos PhotoEspaña 2025 reviews
Collective exhibition at FotoNostrum Gallery (Barcelona), July 2025.
Awarded a scholarship to attend the Magnum Photos workshop in Sarajevo, led by renowned photographers Susan Meiselas, Olivia Arthur, and Nanna Heitmann
2024
Honorable Mention awarded by the Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique (FIAP), recognizing excellence in photographic artistry.
Honorable Mention in the Portraits category at the 24th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, an international competition celebrating women photographers.
2023
Solo exhibition of The City Isn’t Reside in Me at the Ricardo Ortega Hall, Faculty of Communication, University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), held in May 2023.
2022
Finalist in the 20th Roberto Villagraz Scholarship, awarded by EFTI School of Photography, for The City Isn’t Reside in Me.