Laura Ortego

Laura Ortego is a photographer. Some of her topics are the construction of identity, the passage from childhood to adulthood, migration and the encounter between East and West. She graduated as a Director of Photography at the National Film School. She obtained scholarships from the Metropolitan Fund for the Arts in 2013, the National Fund for the Arts in 2012 and in 2007 she won the 2nd. Prize at the National Photography Show. Her work was exhibited in several countries around the world. She participated in residences in Beijing, China and in Kyoto and Fukuoka, Japan. She published the books Paranoia -a photographic diary of a film in India- and Girls Beijing. She also collaborates in Dang Dai magazine of China / Argentina cultural exchange. Mekong River, her first documentary feature directed with Leonel D’Agostino has participated in the WIP section of the Festival of Mar de Plata 2016.

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