Paula Guardián is a Spanish documentary photographer trained at the International Center of Photography in New York. Her work focuses on people and the territories that shape them, tracing how dignity, resilience and quiet forms of resistance appear in everyday life.
She approaches each story slowly and with care, seeking to portray individuals as whole and fully present, not as symbols, but as protagonists of their own landscapes.
Working primarily with analogue processes, she is developing long-term projects that explore the relationship between community and territory
2026 — Feature in Current Conservation
2026 — Exhibition as an awarded artist, Expositivos 26, León, Spain, 2026
2026 — Feature in Err Magazine
2026 — Exhibited as a shortlisted photographer at the Iternational Photography Exhibition 167, by Royal Photographic Society
2026 — Feature in Earth Almanac
2026 — Feature in Planted Journal
2026 — Merit Prize for Global Awards of ‶Walk of water: Identities” photo contest
2026 — Exhibition for the 9th edition of Piel de Gallina magazine, in Teatro Bolívar, Ecuador
2025 — Exhibition at Reial Cercle artistic as finalist of the Ciudat de Barcelona awards, Barcelona
2025 — Exhibition at Bagdad Photo Festival, Iraq
2025 — Exhibition at the Jahresgaben photo festival, Germany
2025 — Exhibition as finalist of PHOCO, Ciudad Real, Spain
2025 — Exhibition as finalist of the Santa Lucía Photography Prize Canary Islands, Spain
2025 — Feature in CLAST Magazine (London)
2025 — Best Of, PhotoVogue Italia
2025 — Feature in Este País Magazine
2025 — Exhibition Meditations, Telos Haus, Brooklyn
2025 — Exhibition Heaven Is a Laundry Room, New York
2025 — Exhibition The Sun Never Sets, 141 Canal St, New York
2024 — Exhibition Shared Spaces, International Center of Photography, New York
2023 — Exhibition as finalist of Málaga Crea, La Caja Blanca, Spain
2023 — Exhibition as finalist of Nuevo Cine Andaluz , Blas Infante Cultural Center, Spain
2023 — Women Shoot Film, Mori Film Lab, Brussels
2022 — Exhibition Nosotras, University of Málaga
2021 — Exhibition Enfoque Joven, Pasaje de Peña, Santander
2021 — Exhibition Sempiterno, Sociedad Económica Amigos del País, Málaga
2020 — Exhibition De lo Pictórico, MUPAM Museum, Málaga