This panel brings together artists who explore ecofeminism as a relational and embodied way of thinking and living. Nature is approached not as a backdrop, but as an active presence with which women enter into relationship through care, ritual, spirituality, and everyday gestures. Across landscape, the body, and lived practices, the works presented reflect on how identity is shaped in dialogue with ecological cycles, ancestry, and the more-than-human world.
Rather than separating nature and culture, these projects foreground interdependence as a shared condition. Folklore, motherhood, ecological memory, and acts of attention become forms of knowledge carried through bodies and generations. Together, the artists consider how reciprocity, continuity, and care offer ways of reimagining our place within the world we inhabit.
A visual artist from the Yalalteca Indigenous community in Mexico. She uses photography to explore ways of addressing identity and its connections with territory, migration, and community bonds. Fabián is a 2024 Bertha Foundation Grantee, a 2021 Photography and Social Justice Magnum fellow, and a National Geographic Society explorer, among other awards.
Claudia is a French photographer and filmmaker whose award-winning work blends documentary and poetry. Through analogue images and immersive journeys, she explores fragility, resistance, and invisible narratives. Her long-term project documntary projects honours the strength of women and men in disrupted societies. For her, creation is a form of resistance.
Guanling Chen (born 1996 in Zhanjiang, a southern city of China) is an artist who focuses on photography and self-publishing, and now is based in Shanghai and Guangdong. She graduated from South China Normal University (SCNU) in 2019 with a degree in Communication and received her MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art in 2022. By photographing landscapes, portraits and still lifes, she attempts to trace the lost paradise and explore the subtle and poetic relationships between people, spaces, and the self. Through the materiality of handmade photobooks, she hopes to expand the possibilities of image narratives and establish a distinctive dialogue between images and viewers.
Shanna Warocquier is a photographer b.1998. In 2025, she’s finalist photographer of Hyères Festival, 40th and resident at Martell Company Foundation (Pernod Ricard). Her work has been exhibited in galleries, published in Libération newspaper, Fisheye magazine, won the Dauphine Contemporary Art Prize and the Digital Cultures Production grant. She produces commissioned works for Off White, Le 19M…
Willow Defebaugh is the cofounder and editor-in-chief of Atmos, an award-winning climate and culture magazine that seeks to re-enchant people with our shared humanity and the Earth. She is the author of The Overview, a deep ecology newsletter and book, and host of The Nature Of podcast. She is a lifelong student of nature and graduated with a degree in creative writing from the University of Michigan. Her work has been featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Teen Vogue, V Magazine, Interview, i-D, BBC, The Guardian, Them, New York Magazine, and more.
Youn Jung Kim is a New York City–based photographer whose work celebrates the beauty of the world through a female-centric lens. Blending South Korean minimalism with NYC’s vibrant energy, she creates intimate, atmospheric images that explore femininity, emotion, and connection. Her practice is rooted in tradition, working primarily with film and darkroom printing to convey a tactile sense of place and feeling. Before becoming a full-time photographer, Kim built a multidisciplinary background in theater, film, and music as a singer, actor, and director—experience that continues to shape her visual storytelling. She has collaborated with brands and creatives including Dior, Polo Ralph Lauren, Net-a-Porter and 2022 LVMH Prize finalist ASHLYN, among others.
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Alice Aedy is an award-winning documentary photographer, filmmaker and National Geographic explorer and Nikon ambassador. Alice’s work has focused on human stories across the world - those living on climate frontlines and those dedicating their lives to defending our planet. She is the co-founder of the Earthrise Studio, a climate studio and platform dedicated to communicating the climate crisis through short-form multi-media storytelling. As the host of the Visionaries podcast, she interviews leading storytellers about how they shape the way we see the world.
