Gloria Oyarzabal
Gloria Oyarzabal (born 1971) is a Spanish visual artist and teacher who works in photography and cinema. She was the co-founder of the Independent Cinema “La Enana Marrón” (The Brown Dwarf) in Madrid (1999–2009), a theater that showcased films d'auteur and "experimental and alternative cinema." She is the winner of several international photography awards and prizes. Early life Oyarzabal was born in London. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Complutense University Madrid and a Master’s degree from the Blank Paper School of Photography, Madrid. Oyarzabal lived in Mali for three years, researching "the ideal of Africa that Europe has created for its own benefit". Career In 2016, Oyarzabal created a "docu-fiction" photography collection centred on Sir John Everett Millais' Ophelia, which was featured in The Huffington Post. She views Ophelia as the ultimate symbol of women's oppression. Speaking about her work in this series Oyarzabal said "I feel satisfied if I can convey this idea of oppression, anxiety, and the breathlessness of some women". In 2017, Oyarzabal won the Landskrona Foto Dummy Award for her project The Picnolepsy of Tshombé. After being displayed at the Landskrona Foto Festival, the newly renamed Picnos Tshombé photobook went on to