I use photography to question inherited narratives and reveal the traces that power and memory leave

on territories and people.

Judith Prat

Judith Prat

That Mist, This SIlence

Witches

BIO

Photographer and documentary filmmaker. Her work addresses fundamental issues such as human rights, territory, identity, and the processes of constructing collective memory.

In her latest projects, she delves into the research processes that precede the photographic act and explores visual narratives that establish a connection between images and critical thinking, as she believes that it is through this relationship that photography has the power to transform individual sensitivity as well as collective consciousness.

Her work has earned her numerous awards, including the Imagen Award from the Spanish Geographical Society (2023), the Sabina de Plata for her professional career (2021), and the Artes & Letras Photography Award (2017). She has been selected for the New York Times Portfolio Review and has received the BBVA Foundation Leonardo Research Grant in Communication, as well as the Albarracín Photography Seminar Grant. Her projects have also been recognised and awarded in international festivals and competitions such as the Prix de la Photographie Paris, the Julia Margaret Cameron Award (UK), the Photofest Award (Mexico), and the International Photography Awards (USA). She has been nominated for the Gabriel García Márquez Awards and for World Press Photo’s 6×6 Global Talent Programme.

In recent years, she has held over 100 exhibitions. Her images have been shown in Spain at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Círculo de Bellas Artes and PHotoESPAÑA, as well as in cities around the world including Paris, Moscow, Quebec, and Montreal, and at major events such as the World Social Forum in 2021 and the Havana Biennial in 2024. In 2025, she presented her latest work, That Mist, this silence, at the Fernández Braso Gallery in Madrid and the Casa de los Morlanes Exhibition Hall in Zaragoza.


Her work has been featured in media outlets such as The New York Times, Al Jazeera and The Guardian. She has published two photobooks: MATRIA and BRUJAS (presented in 2025). As a documentary filmmaker, she has directed the short films You, sit down! and They said she was a witch.

She also gives lectures and masterclasses on her work at universities, cultural organisations and institutions, and regularly serves as a jury member in international photography contests and festivals.

Awards

  • Photography Award, XXXI Internet Awards, 2026, Spain

  • Honourable Mention, Aragón Photojournalists Award, 2026 ,Spain

  • Nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2025

  • Nominated for the Simón Film Awards 2024

  • Portfolio Review by The New York Times 2023

  • IMAGEN Award, Spanish Geographical Society 2023

  • Sinyal Mayestros Award, Espiello International Documentary Film Festival 2022

  • Sabina de Plata for Professional Career 2021

  • Nominated for the Gabo Awards 2021 (COVID Photographic Diaries Project)

  • Candidate for the 6×6 Global Talent Program, World Press Photo 2019

  • Award from the Aragonese Association of Photojournalists 2021 (COVID Photodiaries Project)

  • Artes & Letras Photography Award 2017, Spain

  • Human Nature Photojournalism Contest 2015, Canada

  • Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2014, United Kingdom

  • Photofest Award 2014, Mexico

  • Prix de la Photographie Paris 2014, France (Gold in Press Reportage category)

  • International Photography Awards (IPA) 2014, USA (3rd place in General News and Honorable Mention in Photo Essay and Reportage)

  • Moscow International Foto Awards 2014, Russia (1st Prize in Environment category)

  • Best of Sigma Photography Contest 2014, USA (Finalist)

  • International Photography Awards (IPA) 2013, USA (Honorable Mention in Photo Essay, Reportage, and General News categories)

  • Grant from the Albarracín Photography and Journalism Seminar 2013, Spain

  • Finalist, Grant of the PHOTON International Photojournalism Festival 2011, Spain

(Cinema)

  • Nominated for the Simón Film Awards, 2024

  • Nominated for the Fugaz Short Film Awards, 2024

  • Premio Sinyal Mayestros del Festival Internacional de Cine Espiello 2022

  • Premio Sinyal Mayestros, Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Sobrarbe, 2022

Publications

Documentaries

  • Prat, Judith (2023). They Said She Was a Witch

  • Prat, Judith (2016). You, Sit Down

Photobooks

  • Prat, Judith (2025). BRUJAS. Spain: La Fábrica. ISBN: 978-84-1002-429-8

  • Prat, Judith (2020). Matría. Spain: Gobierno de Aragón. ISBN: 978-84-8380-431-5

  • Prat, Judith (2017). Expolio. Spain: África Imprescindible. Depósito Legal: NA2713-2017

Other

  • Prat, Judith (2022). Feminist Vindication, 1976. In L. Terré (Ed.), Photography Speaks of Revolutions (n.p.). Fundación Mapfre. ISBN: 978-84-9844-825-2

  • Prat, Judith. (2020). Neighbors of the Moon. In Jineth Bedoya (Ed.), Voices of Women. UN Women.

  • Prat, Judith. Divina Campo Remiro. The Gaze of a Pioneer. Edited and written by Lara Albuixech, Lorena Cosba, Tamara Marbán, and Judith Prat. 2019, Provincial Council of Huesca. ISBN: 978-84-92749-84-3

Scholarships

  • Leonardo Research Grant in Communication and Information Sciences, BBVA Foundation 2018, Spain

  • Grant from the Albarracín Photography and Journalism Seminar 2013, Spain

  • Finalist, Grant of the PHOTON International Photojournalism Festival 2011, Spain

CV

Individual exhibitions

  • Caja Rural Exhibition Hall, Zaragoza, 2026. This Mist, This Silence

  • University of Pau, 2026. WITCHES

  • Exhibition Hall of the Palace of the Counts of Ribagorza, 2026. WITCHES

  • Casa de los Morlanes Exhibition Hall, Zaragoza, 2025. That mist, this silence

  • Fernández Braso Gallery, Madrid, 2025. That mist, this silence

  • Embassy of Spain in Andorra, 2025. BRUJAS

  • Fine Art Igualada, 2025. BRUJAS

  • Havana Art Biennial, 2024. BRUJAS

  • Instituto Cervantes de Toulouse, 2024. BRUJAS

  • International Photography Festival Calamuchita, Argentina, 2024. BRUJAS

  • Teatro del Parque Nacional, Bogotá, 2024. Boko Haram: A War Against Them

  • University of Cuenca, 2024. Coltan

  • Museo Gaya Nuño, Soria, 2024. BRUJAS

  • Centre d’Art l’Estacio, Denia, 2024. BRUJAS

  • Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía, Almería, 2024. BRUJAS

  • Museo Barjoa, Gijón, 2023. BRUJAS

  • PhotoEspaña, 2023. BRUJAS

  • Centro de Historias de Zaragoza, 2023. BRUJAS

  • Biblioteca Central Santa Coloma de Gramenet, 2023. Expolio

  • Museo Municipal de Albacete, 2022. Matria

  • Instituto Cervantes de Brussels, 2022. Boko Haram: A War Against Them

  • Plaza de la Virgen Blanca, Vitoria, 2022. Transits and Traffics: Markets That Kill

  • Manuel Benito Moliner Cultural Centre, Huesca, 2022. Matria

  • Latitudes Festival, Exhibition Hall, University of Huelva, 2022. Matria

  • Espiello International Documentary Film Festival, 2022. Ciudad Juárez: Women in Struggle

  • World Social Forum, Mexico, 2021. Expolio

  • Méndez Núñez Gardens, A Coruña, 2021. Matria

  • Congress Palace, Huesca, 2021. Ciudad Juárez: Women in Struggle

  • Photographic Society of Guipuzkoa, 2021. Expolio

  • IAACC Pablo Serrano, Zaragoza, 2020. Matria

  • Palacio Molina, Cartagena, 2020. Expolio

  • Exhibition Hall Kiosko Alfonso, A Coruña, 2019. Boko Haram: A War Against  Them

  • Imaginaria Festival, October Gallery, University Agora, Castellón, 2019. Expolio

  • Casa de las Culturas, Zaragoza, 2019. Ciudad Juárez: Women in Struggle

  • ESDIR School of Design of La Rioja, Logroño, 2019. Expolio

  • Cloître Saint-Louis, Avignon, 2018. Expolio

  • BilboArgazki, UPV-BBK Building, Bilbao, 2018. Nigeria: North and South of the African Giant or the Reason Behind Boko Haram

  • Femme in Arts Festival, Amposta, 2018. Women in Conflicts

  • PhotoESPAÑA, 2018. Expolio

  • Ciudadela of Pamplona, 2017. Expolio

  • Congress Palace of Vitoria, 2017. Nigeria: North and South of the African Giant or the Reason Behind Boko Haram

  • Maison du Développement Durable, Montreal, 2016. Coltan

  • Alumbre Exhibition Hall, Ciudad Real, 2016. Nigeria: North and South of the African Giant or the Reason Behind Boko Haram

  • Zoom Photo Festival Saguenay, Quebec, 2015. Coltan

  • Libertad Gallery, Querétaro, Mexico, 2015. The Guitarist

  • Centro Joaquín Roncal CAI, Zaragoza, 2015. Health and Women in Cuba

  • El Trapiche, Granada, 2014. Coltan

  • Casa de las Culturas, Zaragoza, 2014. Coltan

  • PICS, Barcelona, 2013. Manchester

  • Pati Llimona Cultural Centre, Barcelona, 2013. The Light: Port Slums

Collective exhibitions

  • Abbadiale-Maison des Arts, Arras-en-Lavedan, 2025. Changer notre imaginaire

  • City of Paris, Grilles de Square de la Tour Saint-Jacques, 2024. La Vía Campesina

  • International Photography Festival of Matanzas, 2024. Coltan

  • Patio de la Infanta, Zaragoza, Spain, 2023. The Disasters of War

  • Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2020. With Three Wounds I

  • DKV Center for Photography for Social Causes, Zaragoza, 2020. COVID Photographic Diaries

  • PHotoESPAÑA 2020, Madrid, 2020. Time Suspended

  • Parliament of Cantabria, Santander, 2020. Western Sahara: Not a Country for Journalists

  • Palau de la Generalitat, Barcelona, 2019. Photojournalists: Views on Gender-Based Violence Around the World

  • Barjola Museum, Gijón, 2019. Creators of Conscience

  • La Lonja, Zaragoza, 2019. Creators of Conscience

  • Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, 2019. Creators of Conscience

  • La Lonja, Zaragoza, 2019. A Certain Light: Women Photographers from Aragon

  • IAACC Pablo Serrano, Zaragoza, 2018. Images for Diversity and Integration

  • Palau Robert, Barcelona, 2018. Creators of Conscience

  • Municipal Heritage Museum of Málaga, 2014. International Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography (World Photography Gala Awards)