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, consequently, changing people's and politicians' minds.

“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 Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the University of the Arts London.

EDUCATION

  • 2022 until now | Mentorship Lore Stessel

  • 2019-21 | MA in Photojournalism and 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) - Distinction

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

ARTIST TALKS & TEACHING

  • Instructor and mentor - Present

  • Graine de Photographe - Present

  • Climate conscious creativity, UAL Sustainability Alumni Network, 2022

PRESS & PUBLICATION

SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 10-02.2022-23 - Dune, Embajada de España en Bélgica (Brussels, BE)

  • 02.2023 - WunderKamer ou le portrait qui nous regarde, Tipi Bookshop/Photo Brussels Festival (Brussels, BE)

  • 11.2022 - Montes Negros’ Eden, Festival OFF Bratislava (Bratislava, SK)

  • 11-12.2022 - Blossom Flowers, Ecole fondamentale de l'Héliport (Brussels, BE)

  • 06-08.2022 - Climate Conscious Creativity (online, Without Form space, UK)

  • 04.2022 - Dune, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels, International conference on the Global Green New Deal (Brussels, BE)

  • 11.2021 - Montes Negros’ Eden, LCC / University of the Arts London (London, UK)

  • 04.2021 - Ellas son Campo, Casa de Cultura de Cariñena (Zaragoza, ES)

  • 03.2021 - Ellas son Campo, Ayuntamiento de Tardienta (Huesca, ES)

  • 02.2021 - Ellas son Campo, Casa de la Cultura de Cariñena (Zaragoza, ES)

  • 10.2020 - Ellas son Campo, Sala Goya, Edificio Maristas (Zaragoza, ES)

  • 08.2020 - Ellas son Campo, Ayuntamiento de Cantavieja (Teruel, ES)

  • 03.2020 - Ellas son Campo, Ayuntamiento de Villarroya de los Pinares (Teruel, ES)

  • 03.2020 - Ellas son Campo, Ayuntamiento de Fortanete (Teruel, ES)

  • 03.2020 - Ellas son Campo, Casa de la Cultura de Castellote (Teruel, ES)

  • 01.2020 - An Angel on Earth, Espace Vanderborght (Brussels, BE)

  • 06/07.2019 - Ellas son Campo, Centro de Interpretación de la Agricultura y el Regadío (Alfranca, Zaragoza, ES)

  • 02.2013 - Lutería, Alquimia de los Instrumentos de Cuerda -El Ojo Fotográfico-, Centro Cultural Villanueva de Gállego (Zaragoza, ES)

BOOKS & FANZINES

  • La Metamorfosis, self-published, 2022 (upcoming)

  • Montes Negros’ Eden, self-published, 2021

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

PAMPHLETS, WEB DOCS & OTHER ACTIONS

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

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

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

MENTIONS & GRANTS

  • 2023 | FORMAT23 Open Call Longlisted (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)

CURATION

  • 2018 | Brussels Street Photo Festival: Selected works exhibitions (Brussels, BE)

Prints available on request and services available for hire.

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