Najera, Janire
“I am a documentary photographer and multimedia artist based in Cardiff, UK. I studied Journalism in Madrid and Documentary Photography at the University of Wales, Newport.
Since graduating I have undertaken artistic residencies and exhibited internationally. My projects have been featured at The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN News and The Guardian. In 2015, I published my first book ‘Moving forward, looking back’ with Editorial RM and Spain arts&culture.
Through my work I hope to re-think and develop imagery that questions the histories and environments we belong to. My documentary practice is concerned with highlighting communities that have been displaced through changing social and economic climates.
From 2008 to 2012 I curated the multidisciplinary art project ‘Ghosts in Armour’, an artistic exploration into the declining of an industry that has shaped parallel cultures across Europe.”