cristina de middel

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About

Cristina De Middel is a Spanish-Belgian 
photographer born in Alicante in 1975.

After 10 years as a photojournalist, Cristina De Middel shifted her practice 
to a more conceptual approach in order to question the documentary value 
of photography. In 2012 she produced the acclaimed series The Afronauts, triggering a decade of work around the role of photography in creating stereotypes. Besides her prolific career as an author, and as an active member of the photography community, Cristina has been invited to curate festivals like Lagos Photo, PhotoEspaña, and San José Photo in Uruguay. She has published more than 14 photobooks and her work is constantly on show in different institutions and venues. Cristina is also on the board of Vist Projects, a platform to support Latin American visual story-telling and she is a member of Magnum Photos agency and its president since 2022.

Education

2002
MA in Photojournalism
Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain

2001
MA in Fine Arts
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

2000
MA in Photography
University of Oklahoma
PROMOE Scholarship, EEUU

Awards

2024
Finalist of the DeutscheBoerse Prize for Photography
London, UK

2023
Winner of ‘Premios Periodisticos Comunidad Valencia’ for Professional Trajectory
Valencia, Spain

2020
Winner of the Prix Virginia
Finalist of the Leica Oskar Barnak Award

2017
National Prize of Photography
Spain

Winner ofthe F.C Barcelona Project Award
Barcelona, Spain

Winner of the LENSCULTURE Portrait Award
USA

2016
Winner of the Greenpeace photography Award
Zurich, Switzerland

2014
Winner ofthe Best Book of the year with “Party”, PhotoEspaña
Madrid, Spain

2012
Winner Infinity Award, best publication for The Afronauts, ICP
New York, USA

Finalist ofthe Deutsche Boerse Prize for Photography
London, UK

Winner of the Photo Folio Review, Rencontres de la Photographie
Arles, France

2º Prize in the Sony World Photography Awards
London, UK

2011
Winner of the Lightside/Humble Arts grant
New York, USA

Exhibitions

2026
Apoteosis Now
IVAM, Valencia. Spain
May 21st to October 12th

Excessocenus
PHOTOIMAGEN
Centro de la Imagen. Santo Domingo. Dominican Republic
August 27th to September 11th

Jan Mayen + Gentlemen´s Club
MONTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Bratislava. Slovakia
November 6th to 20th

2025
Journey to the Center
The Photographer´s Gallery. London. UK
International Center for the Image. Dublin. Ireland

Presence in Collections

Colecction Banco de Sabadell
Spain

Deutsche Börse Foundation
Germany, acquisition in 2020

Tate Modern
London, acquisition in 2017

Collection of the Generalitat Valenciana
Spain

Archive of Modern Conflict
Canada and UK

MUN – Museo de la Universidad de Alicante
Spain

MACE – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo 
de Ibiza
Spain

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fonts in use

Silva Text / Blackletra
Work Sans / Google


site design

marina rigolleto


web development

sarah matos


executive production

moood.cc

Books

Cartas al Director Cartas al Director
Party Party
Preparados, Listos, Archivos Preparados, Listos, Archivos
Gentlemen’s Club Gentlemen’s Club
The Afronauts The Afronauts
Man Jayen Man Jayen
Cucurrucucú Cucurrucucú
Snap Fingers & Whistle Snap Fingers & Whistle
Sharkification Sharkification
Jan Mayen Jan Mayen
This Is What Hatred Did This Is What Hatred Did
Jungle Check Jungle Check
The Kabuler The Kabuler
Journey To The Center Journey To The Center
Midnight at the Crossroards Midnight at the Crossroards
Polyspam Polyspam
The Perfect Man The Perfect Man
Muchismo Muchismo
Vidas y Milagros de Paula P. Vidas y Milagros de Paula P.
Boa Noite Povo Boa Noite Povo

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