Adriana is a documentary photographer and filmmaker. She was born and raised in Barcelona where she studied Art History and Graphic Design. She studied Documentary Photography at ICP in New York, where she worked as a photojournalist for a decade creating long term documentary photography essays such as Life on the Block. In 2019 her first Documentary film: Elliott Erwitt, Silence Sounds Good premiered in Arles and NY.
2019-2015 Director, Producer, camera and Script writer of Documentary film
Elliott Erwitt Silence Sounds Good.
2004-Present Documentary Photography, Photojournalism. Editorial assignments International Press.
2004-present Film and Photography Production, Exhibition production, Education.
2015-2012 Elliott Erwitt International Projects Assistant, New York, USA.
2009-2011 Member photographer & management Facing Change Documenting America. NY, USA.
Awards & Grants
2021 Audience Award, Master of Art Festival, Sofia (Bulgaria)
2019 Best Nacional Documentary DArt Festival, Barcelona (Spain).
2006
Winner National Press Photographers Association, Nikon Sabbatical Grant, U.S.
“Descubrimientos” (New Talents), PhotoEspaña, Madrid, Spain.
10 New Talents In America by American Photo, U.S.
Books
2022 Los Salazar, 2001-2007 Colección Ojos de Buey, Janus Books.
2019 Before I Croak, Elliott & Adriana, by SMITH (Gost Books).
Film Festivals
• EPOS International Art Film Festival, 2021 (Israel)
• Master of Art Festival, 2021 – Online Edition, Sofia (Bulgary)
• Asolo Art Film Festival, 2020 - Online Edition (Italy)
• FIM - Women's International Film Festival, 2020 – Online Edition (Brasil)
• CINETECA ITALIANA Milano, July - October 2020 (Italy)
• Artecinema International Festival, October 2020 – Online Edition (Italy)
• FILAF / Festival International du Livre d’Art et du Film, Perpignan, 2020 (France)
Pärnu International Documentary & Anthropology Film Festival, 2020, Pärnu (Estonia)
• ON – ART POLAND, Official Selection, 2020 (Poland)
• FIFA - The International Festival of Films on Art, Official Selection, Montreal,
2020 (Canada)
• Miami Jewish Film Festival, 2020 (Florida, USA)
• Festival dei Popoli, 2019 (Italy)
• DOC NYC Festival, International Premiere, 2019 (USA)
• DArt Festival, Barcelona, Spanish Premiere 2019 (Spain)
Photography Exhibitions
2023 “El curso de los acontecimientos. Un atlas de la colección Foto Colectania", Group Show, curated by Carles Guerra, Spain.
2022 Before I Croak, On Elliott Erwitt, Solo Show, Vintage Photo Festival, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
2021 Brooklyn’s Secret, Solo Show, Festival InCadaqués, Spain.
2020 Los Salazar, Festival Revela’t, Barcelona, Spain.
2018 Brooklyn’s Secret, Solo show, Galeria Utopia Parkway, Madrid, Spain.
2014 Life on the Block, Solo Show, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, US.
2012 Old Harlem, New Harlem: Images of Transformation, Group Show, curated by Lisa DuBois, Anthony Barboza and John Pinderhughes. Rio II Gallery, Broadway Housing Community, New York.
Vidas Gitanas. Lungo drom, Group Show, EU International Touring Exhibition, Produced by Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) Spain. > La Vanguardia, Spain
2011 Among Women, La intropia de Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu, Solo show, Galeria Utopia Parkway, Madrid, Spain. > Vanity Fair Spain
Camino hacia la felicidad?, Solo show, Casa de America, Madrid, Spain. > RTV.ES (Link viewing 21'10s)
2010 La guia secreta de la Rambla, Group Show, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain.
2009 Life on The Block, Randall Scott Gallery, Solo Show, New York, US.
El ojo de tu vecino, Instituto Cervantes, Group Show,Spanish Cultural Center, NY.
2008 Los Salazar, Xavier Miserachs Biennal, Solo Show. Palafrugell, Spain
2007 El Museo del Barrio Biennal, Life on The Block series, New York, U.S.
2006 People and Place , Group Show. International Center of Photography,NY.
“Descubrimientos” (New Talents), PhotoEspaña, Group Show. Madrid, Spain.
2005 Photo Comunity presentation: Life on the block ,103rd Street Park, Spanish Harlem, New York.
Projection Spanish Harlem:Vivir en la 103, Festival Internacional de Fotoperiodismo, Gijón, Spain.
2004 Spanish Harlem /Vivir en la 103. Photography Bienal (Primavera Fotográfica 04) Barcelona, Spain.
Education
2016-2017 Master Creative Documentary, UPF, Barcelona, Spain.
Project Mentor: Luciano Rigolini
2005 Eddie Adams Workshop/New York Times assignment Award.US
2001-2003 International Center of Photography NY, US.
Internship Gilles Larraín Studio, New York.
1998-2001 BA degree Graphic Design, Escuela Massana, Barcelona, Spain
1995-1999 BA Art History, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain.
1996-1998 Film Studies, Paul Valery University, Montpellier, France.