Alejandra Carles-Tolra

Alejandra Carles-Tolra is a Spanish photographer from Barcelona currently living in London. Her work examines the relationship between individual & group identity, and how the latter shapes the fo

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Alejandra Carles-Tolra is a photographer from Barcelona based in London. Her work examines the relationship between individual and group identity, and how the latter shapes the former.

Her work has been published and exhibited internationally, including The Guardian, CNN, Vice, The Huffington Post, NYTimes’ T Magazine, Circulation(s) Festival in Paris, Jerwood Space in London, Unseen Amsterdam, PHotoEspaña and the Wuhan Art Museum in China. In 2016 she was a finalist at the Outwin Boochever Portrait Award at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, was awarded the Jerwood Visual Arts/ Photoworks Award in 2017 and is part of the National Portrait Gallery London's Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2018.

Alejandra currently works with non profit organizations as an art workshop facilitator using visual arts to empower vulnerable communities. She holds an MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a BA in Sociology from the University of Barcelona.

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