Niurka Barroso

Niurka Barroso graduated from Havana University (1984) with a degree in Classical languages and worked for twelve years for the Agence France-Presse (AFP). Since 2005 she has worked as a freelance photographer in Toronto. She has presented twenty solo exhibitions in Austria, Canada, Cuba, USA, and Spain (1998-2012); participated in several group exhibitions in Canada, Cuba, France, Israel, Mexico, Spain and the United States (1995-2014); and received the Casa de las Americas Award for Documentary Photography (1998).