Noemí Rodrigo Sabio is a visual artist and photographer working with image, text and sound on environmental issues.

Her practice explores human intervention in the landscape and nature, combining research-based methods with experimental and alternative processes in both analogue and digital. She adapts the techniques to the subjects, creating a relationship between the stories and their form. In this process, she applies collaborative methods, archive photography, and various techniques such as mixed formats, image intervention, and collected materials. By doing so, she aims to explore the photographic medium while unveiling environmental stories and advocating for the environment.

“I grew up next to several environmental injustices of human abuse such as over construction on the coast, rivers' diversion, and desertification. I started then to forge my conviction about the environment’s protection. I understand that we live in a world where everything is connected, so relationships and behaviours between beings and the medium should not cross each other's lines.”

Noemi’s projects are produced across platforms such as books, fanzines, pamphlets, actions, web docs, installations and exhibitions. She has exhibited both locally and internationally, and her work is held in the collections of the University of the Arts London and the Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ciencias Ambientales de Aragón. Her photographs have appeared in Photograd, Click Magazine, Salvaje Magazine, La Vanguardia and elDiario.es, among others, and have received fellowships from Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and Dirección General de Aragón. In 2021 she self-published the dummy ‘Montes Negros’ Eden’.

She obtained with distinction the master's degree in Photography at the University of the Arts London, and has had the privilege of being mentored by Lore Stessel, Aletheia Casey, Paul Lowe, and Lewis Bush, among others.

EDUCATION

  • 2025 | The Sustainable Darkroom workshop series

  • 2019-21 | MA in Documentary Photography - London College of Communication / University of the Arts London (London, UK) - Distinction

  • 2015-19 | Photography Degree - Ecole de Photographie et de Techniques Visuelles Agnès Varda (Brussels, BE) - Distinction

  • 2014-15 | MA in European Policy and Communication - Institut des Hautes Etudes des Communications Sociales (Brussels, BE)

  • 2010-14 | BA in Journalism - Universidad San Jorge (Zaragoza , ES) / KU Leuven (Leuven, BE)

  • 2008-2010 | Artistic Baccalaureate, IES Goya (Zaragoza , ES)

  • 2003-2012 | Music studies, Conservatorio Profesional de Música (Zaragoza , ES)

Including mentorship and guidance from Paul Lowe, Aletheia Casey, Léonie Hampton, Lewis Bush, Becky Warnock, Lore Stessel, Hannah Fletcher, and Melanie King, among others.

ARTIST TALKS & TEACHING

  • Instructor and mentor - Present

  • Graine de Photographe - Present

  • Climate conscious creativity, UAL Sustainability Alumni Network, 2022

PRESS & PUBLICATION

EXHIBITIONS

2025

  • UPCOMING - PHoto ESPAÑA / Greenpeace, Montes Negros’ Eden (Madrid, ES)

  • Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Why Remember? Testimonies of Light -projection- (Sarajevo, BIH)

2023

  • SPAIN arts & science lab in BELGIUM (Brussels, BE)

  • Photo Brussels Festival / Tipi Bookshop, WunderKamer ou le portrait qui nous regarde (Brussels, BE)

2022

  • Festival OFF Bratislava (Bratislava, SK)

  • Blossom Flowers, Ecole fondamentale de l'Héliport (Brussels, BE)

  • Without Form space, Climate Conscious Creativity (online, UK)

  • Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels, International conference on the Global Green New Deal (Brussels, BE)

2021

  • LCC Postgraduate Showcase / University of the Arts London (London, UK)

  • Casa de Cultura de Cariñena (Zaragoza, ES)

  • Ayuntamiento de Tardienta (Huesca, ES)

2020

  • Espace Vanderborght (Brussels, BE)

  • Sala Goya, Edificio Maristas (Zaragoza, ES)

  • Ayuntamiento de Cantavieja (Teruel, ES)

  • Ayuntamiento de Villarroya de los Pinares (Teruel, ES)

  • Ayuntamiento de Fortanete (Teruel, ES)

  • Casa de la Cultura de Castellote (Teruel, ES)

2019

  • Centro de Interpretación de la Agricultura y el Regadío (Alfranca, Zaragoza, ES)

2018

  • Brussels Street Photo Festival: Selected works exhibitions -curation- (Brussels, BE)

2013

  • Centro Cultural Villanueva de Gállego (Zaragoza, ES)

BOOKS, FANZINES, PAMPHLETS, WEB DOCS & OTHER ACTIONS

  • Montes Negros’ Eden, self-published (upcoming)

  • LifeETX Human Stories, Carbon Market Watch, 2024 (web doc)

  • Montes Negros’ Eden, 2021 (dummy)

  • Si je vous disais…, Climate Action Network Europe, 2021 (pamphlet action)

  • Let me tell you…, Climate Action Network Europe, 2020 (postcard action)

  • Ellas son Campo, Gobierno de Aragón and Universidad de Zaragoza, 2019 (zine)

  • Faces of Climate Fight, Climate Action Network Europe, 2019 (web doc)

MENTIONS & GRANTS

  • 2023 | FORMAT23 Open Call Shortlisted (Derby, UK)

  • 2022 | Descubrimientos PhotoEspaña: Selected Participant (Madrid, ES)

  • 2021-22 | Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Résidence d’Artiste Culture-Enseignement (BE)

  • 2020-21 | Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Grant ‘Un future pour la culture’ (BE)

  • 2020 | Descubrimientos PhotoEspaña: Selected Participant (Madrid, ES)

  • 2018-19 | Dirección General de Aragón Funding (Aragón, ES)

COLLECTIONS

  • University of the Arts London Collection, London (UK)

  • Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ciencias Ambientales de Aragón, Zaragoza (ES)

Prints available on request and services available for hire.

rodrigosabio.noemi@gmail.com |. BE +32 489 395 665  |. ES +32 665 832 387