Lua Ribeira was born in 1986 in the autonomous community of Galicia, in the north of Spain. She received a BA Hons in Media Studies at the University of Vigo in 2009 and in 2010 she moved to Barcelona where she studied graphic dsesign and as a result discovered an interest in photography. Adopting it as a vocation, Lua moved to the U.K. where in 2012 she enrolled on the Documentary Photography course, at the University of South Wales She graduated with honors in 2016 and just two years later, Lua joined Magnum Photos as a Nominee.

Her practice, characterized by its collaborative nature, is the result of extensive research and an immersive approach to the subject matter. To quote from her bio on the Magnum website, Lua “is interested in trespassing social barriers, and breaking the structural separation in relation to particular communitie ...