Student Photographer of the Year

This project explores the complexity of female prison spaces and the people who inhabit them, from the inmates to their families. The series consists of photographs of the architecture of the prisons, the neighbourhoods they are in, and the dynamics at the visitor and family member entrances. This project was carried out at the women's penitentiary centres of San Miguel, San Joaquín and Valparaíso, between the months of March and July 2024.

Micaela Valdivia Medina (Lima, Peru - 2001 Perú) Student of Professional Photography at Arcos Institute in Chile, with studies in Direction of visual Projects and Photography at Centro de la Imagen of Peru and with studies in the School of Political Science at Antonio Ruiz de Montoya University in Perú. Her work in photography is in constant movement trough the social context, forms of creation and colectivity. She developes themes as gender, culture, violence and territory.