Marcela Taboada is a freelance photographer based in Oaxaca, Mexico. She has worked on long-term projects for more than 35 years and has created more than twenty stories including “Timeless Homes,” “The AAA Oaxaca Warriors,” “Women of Clay,  “Life is Elsewhere,” “Distant Links,” “Enabled,” and “Consecrated Cloistered Mexican Nuns in the 21st century.” Marcela’s work has been published in numerous publications, books, art catalogues, and magazines.

Marcela’s photographs have been exhibited in various museums and galleries in Mexico and abroad. Her work is in the following collections: Sonoma Museum of Art, The Hasselblad Center, Copenhagen Fotografisk Center, Sonoma Museum of Art, Throckmorton Fine Art Gallery, The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Fifty Crows Gallery, The Wittliff Collection, Centro de la Imagen, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Oaxaca, among others.

She has received various awards, scholarships, and distinctions such as the Hasselblad Foundation stipend, National Geographic All Roads Photographers, Photo Lucida, Mexico-Indonesia Cultural Exchange, National System of Art Creators FONCA, Nikon Tokyo Jury in Japan, Héctor and María García Foundation Award.

Marcela is a professor of photography at universities and high schools, as well as teaching children and teens in vulnerable situations, plus blind photographers. She has been tutoring at FONCA Young Creators. She has taught workshops for the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Photographic Center from 1996 to 2012, she produced workshops in Oaxaca with Mary Ellen Mark.

Click HERE to listen to Marcela’s interview on B & H Explora Photography Podcasts.