Fernanda Pineda

Fernanda Pineda

From the project Yolüja, this image depicts a Wayuu child playing with the horns of a goat after a ritual sacrifice. In Wayuu culture, goats are central to daily life, rituals, and family traditions, reflecting the connection between community, spirituality, and playful practices.

During the early-morning vigils, goats are sacrificed to feed the family of the deceased and the guests. After the sacrifice, some children would play with the horns, pretending to be goats themselves, weaving the animal into daily life and playful tradition. 2 January 2019.

Fernanda Pineda is a Colombian photographer, producer, and filmmaker born in Bogotá. She began her career with film studies and has since developed work focused on visual storytelling of social, cultural, and environmental issues across Latin America. Her personal practice explores memory, identity, and spirituality in communities throughout the region, guided by the question: how do communities resist and transform in the face of violence and oblivion?

Her artistic research unfolds at the intersection of photojournalism and documentary cinema, combining intimate observation with a poetic exploration of the relationship between territory and community life. For her, the image is a tool of resistance, care, and the transmission of knowledge.

Committed to collective creation, she has led visual storytelling workshops and collaborated closely with communities to strengthen spaces of memory and representation. Her current work focuses on projects that connect spirituality, nature, and human experience as central elements to rethink our relationship with the present and the future.

Her trajectory has been recognized in international photography spaces. She has received the Gabo Journalism Prize – Photography (2025), the Vision Sud-Est Award at Visions du Réel (2024), and the World Report Award | Documenting Humanity – Master Award 2025 (Shortlist). She was also highlighted in POY Latam (category Nuestra mirada, otros mundos posibles, 2024) and nominated for awards such as Foam Paul Huf and Leica Oskar Barnack (2024 and 2025). Her work has been showcased at international festivals and platforms including Arte x Arte (Buenos Aires), Photoville (New York), ArtBo (Bogotá), Rivoli Galerie (Paris), Latin American Foto Festival (Bronx Documentary Center, New York), and FOLA (Uruguay).