Koral Carballo

Photographer

Koral Carballo (b. Poza Rica, Veracruz, Mexico in 1987) is an Afro-mestiza mexican photographer who tells/researches stories related to identity, violence, migration, and social justice working at the intersection of participatory art and journalism.   She is Catchlight Leadership Fellow 2021, POY LATAM 2nd place Nuestra Mirada Award 2021, Woman Photograph and Getty Images grantee 2019, We Women grantee 2019,  Open Society Foundations Moving Walls 25 Fellow 2018, and received first place in the Latin American Photography Colloquium portfolio review 2017.   She founded along with a group of Veracruz photojournalists 2014 the Mirar Distinto International Festival of Journalistic and Documentary Photography in Mexico and currently co-produces.   Koral Carballo's work is part of the art collection of Francisco Toledo, Centro de la Imagen, Fundación Televisa and Open Society Foundations.   Collaborates with Ruda Collective.