About Me

Maria Solaguren-Beascoa is a Barcelona-based photographer, scientist and experimental artist whose practice brings together wildlife, conservation and the material processes of photography, through alternative photographic processes.

Her scientific training, combined with long-term wildlife fieldwork and experimental printing, defines a distinctive approach to conservation photography in which the photographic process itself becomes part of the ecological narrative.

With a PhD in Neuroscience and a BSc in Biomedicine, she approaches photography through observation, research and experimentation. Her work is guided by a simple question: how can photography be made not only of nature, but with nature? Sunlight, minerals, water, plant pigments and photographic chemistry become active elements in the creation of her images.

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CURRENT PROJECTS

• Flying Roots: ongoing international photographic project exploring colour, behaviour and natural processes across wildlife species and locations worldwide.

• Colour of Survival: dedicated Bearded Vulture investigation developed from Flying Roots, focused on feather-staining behaviour, ferruginous springs and their conservation in the Pyrenees.

• Abstract: Abstract is an analog experiment exploring light as a physical, unpredictable force acting directly on film.  I open the back of the camera at the same precise time of day, while standing in many locations, on different days and years worldwide, allowing light, atmosphere, and place to strike the emulsion without mediation.  

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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Flying Roots, weissraum gallery, Germany, 2027

Flying Roots, Réserve Ornithologique du Teich, France, 2026

Flying Roots, MontPhoto Fest, Spain, 2026

Flying Roots, Make Art Not War, Switzerland, 2026

Flying Roots, Festival de Fotografia de Paranapiacaba, Brazil, 2026
Flying Roots, Borsí Gallery, Barcelona, 2026, Experimental Photo Festival / IPFA Meeting
The Art of Nature, H2O Gallery, Barcelona, 2023

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SELECTED GROUP / INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATIONS

Galápagos Imagen & Hábitat Lab – Festival Internacional de Fotografía Experimental, Gálapagos, 2026

The Hand Magazine, Issue 52, 2026
EXP.22 International Festival on Experimental Photography, Barcelona, 2022
maybe.magazine, 2022
The Holy Art Gallery, London, 2021
Analog Forever Magazine, online, 2021
ByHand: Alternative Processes, International, 2021

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SELECTED WORKSHOPS & EDUCATION

Introduction to Cyanotype, MontPhoto 2026

Introduction to Cyanotype, Paranapiacaba 2026

Artist & educator, Experimental Photo Festival / Agora School of Experimentation, 2022–present
Tricolour Cyanotype, Experimental Photo Festival, Barcelona, 2024–2026
Experimental Cyanotype, Centre Cívic Pati Llimona, Barcelona
Workshops in cyanotype, anthotype, chlorophyll printing and experimental photography

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SELECTED MEDIA & PUBLIC OUTREACH

3Cat / Tots els matins del món, 2026
Brazilian press coverage during Festival de Fotografia de Paranapiacaba, 2026
National and regional Spanish media
Analog Forever Magazine, 2021

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