Maria Contreras Coll is a Spanish freelance documentary photographer and photojournalist focusing on sociocultural gender issues and the fight for women rights. She is currently based between Spain and Nepal.

After finishing her degree in Fine Arts in Barcelona, she studied a postgraduate degree in Photojournalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona as a valedictorian. She spent the next year photographing intimate and personal aspects of the Refugee Crisis in Europe, traveling and living in affected areas such as the Spanish enclave of Melilla, Greece, France, Germany or Morocco. After that, she moved to Nepal in 2017 to work on a women’s rights project.

Her work has been published in Al Jazeera or GEO Magazine among others. She is a guest lecturer at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and her work has been shown in cities such as Dubai, London or Barcelona. Recently, she has selected for the International Women Photographers Award, and to attend the XXXI Eddie Adams Workshop.

Maria has the need to tell people’s stories in a rigorous and well-investigated manner, capturing global problems from a very intimate and personal perspective. She is especially interested in equality and gender issues, and in how women are fighting against obsolete and harmful social structures and practices in different cultures, religions, and countries. She is a member of Women Photograph and Photographic Social Vision.