Introduction to Photography

Lourdes Delgado

Doctor of Humanities from Universitat Pompeu Fabra where she also studied the Master’s in Comparative Studies of Literature, Art and Thought. She holds a degree in Computer Science from Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. From 1999 to 2008, she worked in the United States as a freelance photographer for multiple media (for example, GQ, Newsweek, People, Book, Woman, L’Espresso, Visão, Stern and El País, ABC and La Vanguardia) and jazz record labels (Blue Note, Verve, Palmetto, Universal). As an artist she has developed portraiture and nature projects exhibited in the United States (Instituto Cervantes in New York, Sheldon Museum, Center for Documentary Studies of Duke University) and in Spain (Universidad de Cádiz, H2O Gallery).

Lourdes Delgado is currently devoted to Photography academic research and teaching. Her interest in photography is multiple: it covers from the theoretical field of representation as a social object to the subjective universe of artists.