Alejandra Rajal is a freelance photographer based in Mexico. Her work focuses on trying to understand how humans connect with the world we live in and the complexities surrounding belief systems in stories of climate change, drugs, gender, religion and violence. Her work has been featured in El País, ESPN, FAZ, Gatopardo, Grow by Ginko, NPR, National Geographic, Nature, Pie de Página, SZ, The Guardian, VICE, among others.
Member of Women Photograph, Diversify Photo and Frontline Freelance Mexico.
HEFAT certified.AcknowledgmentsVital Impacts Mentorship Program. Recipient -
2023XX Bienal de Fotografía del Centro de la Imagen. Selected -
2023American Photography 39. Chosen Winner
- 2023Eddie Adams Workshop. Awardee -
2022GFX Challenge Regional Grantee -
2022Visura Highlighting Success Stories by Women -
2020Women Photograph: 2020 Year in Pictures -
2020National Geographic Society COVID-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists. Grantee -
2020Fundación Gabo and Open Society Foundations. Grantee -
2020IWMF Adelante Fellow -
El Salvador, 2020Scholarship Steven Sotloff 2Lives Foundation and ACOS -
Miami, USA, 2019IWMF scholarship for Native Agency’s Festival -
Ecuador, 2017EducationEddie Adams Workshop XXXV -
USA, 2022 Photojournalism and Documentary Photography Seminar. VII Academy. -
2021/2022Missouri Photo Workshop 72nd -
2020Research and new narratives on drug policy. Fundación Gabo and OSF -
Colombia, 2020Drug policy and therapeutic justice. Social Science Research Council -
Mexico, 2020HEFAT training RPS Partnership -
Mexico, 2020Women Photograph Workshop -
Ecuador, 2019HEFAT training RPS Partnership -
Mexico, 2019HEFAT training GJS -
Miami, USA, 2019Boreal Bash V by Boreal Collective -
Mexico, 2018"Risk and security in Latin America´s journalism". IWMF and Knight Center -
2018Foundry Photojournalism Workshop -
Mexico, 2017ExhibitionsXX Bienal de Fotografía Centro de la Imagen -
Upcoming, 2023.Mirar Distinto Festival - Mexico, 2023.Fujifilm Square -
Japan, 2022 Centro de la Imagen -
Mexico, 2021Distrito Tec and FEMSA Foundation -
Mexico, 2021Fotografia de Paranapiacaba with The Journal -
Brasil, 2020Grun Berlin GmbH with Native Agency -
Germany, 2020Lumix Festival with Native Agency -
Germany, 2018