Raquel Trejo is a Mexican artist and environmental scientist living and working in Australia. Her work explores the intersections of identity, motherhood, and ecology, with a focus on the relationship between scientific observation and emotional awareness. Working primarily with underwater photography and video, she utilises analog and digital cameras, often historic instruments originally designed for scientific use to reclaim tools of control as instruments of empathy.
Through participatory projects, she develops collaborative methodologies that invite communities to participate in the creation, preservation, and circulation of their own visual histories. Through a lens of femininity and ecology, Trejo’s practice treats beauty, attentiveness, and tenderness as vital ways to care for and protect our environment.
hola@raqueltrejo.com.au
RAQUEL TREJO
ART CV
Education
2022 Bachelor of Creative Arts (Screen), Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia (partially completed)
2022 Dip in Photography, Centre for Creative Photography, Adelaide, Australia (partially completed)
2007 Postgraduate Diploma in Translation Studies, University of Auckland, New Zealand
2003 Master of Science in International Environmental Science, Lund University, Sweden
2000 Bachelor of Agricultural Engineering, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City
Selected Opportunities, Awards, and Honours
2026 Selected Participant, Encontros da Imagem Portfolio Reviews, Braga, Portugal
2026 Selected for Publication, Coral Kids, Photo Essay Category, FotoDoc Photo Contest, Brazil
2026 Recipient, SAFC AIDC Conference Subsidy, South Australian Film Corporation, Australia
2026 Honourable Mention, Experimental Category, Fotoslovo Awards
2026 Selected Artist, ProfiFoto x OFF Arles, France
2025 Official Selection (Professional), International Photography Awards
2025 Finalist, LOOK! Prize, Museum of Australian Photography, Australia
2025 Nominee, One Shot Award, BBA Prizes, Berlin, Germany
2025 Honourable Mention, PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, State of the World
2025 Honourable Mention, Foto Nostrum Pollux Awards, Barcelona, Spain
2025 Highly Commended, Portrait Category Award, Australian Photographic Prize, Australia
2025 Highly Commended, Art & Conceptual, Capture Awards, Australia
2025 Bronze Winner (Technique), Analog Sparks Awards
2025 Second Prize, Grounded Festival of Yorke Peninsula, Australia
2025 Honourable Mention, The Flow Photography Competition, USA
2023 Runner-Up, AdMental Campaign, South Australia
2003 Lund University International Scholarship, Lund University, Sweden
Exhibitions
2027 RainShots International Photo Exhibition, Fuji Photo Gallery Ginza, Tokyo, Japan (Curator’s Pick)
2026 ProfiFoto x OFF Arles, Les Murs Blancs Gallery, Arles, France
2026 Postcards: Images and Whispers, Women's Photo Festival, Athens, Greece
2026 Anarchy (Ephemere), Tokyo, Japan; Olbia, Italy; Versailles, France; Northampton, UK
2026 Postcards (selected from Postcards: Images and Whispers), Ostuni Foto Festival, Ostuni, Italy
2026 Topographies of Self, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Virtual Gallery, Massachusetts, USA
2026 Inner Lens – Inner Worlds, Artdoc Photography Magazine, Online Exhibition
2025 LOOK! Prize Exhibition, Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh), Melbourne, Australia
2025 Grounded Festival of Yorke Peninsula Exhibition, South Australia, Australia
2025 BBA One Shot Award Exhibition, Kühlhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2025 Ephemere Photo Festival, Tokyo, Japan
2025 A Scientific Approach, LoosenArt, Rome, Italy
2025 Blue, Decode Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, USA
2025 To Slime Away, Outhouse Gallery, London, UK
2025 Projection Selection, Narnimmaginaria, Nardi, Italy
Publications
2023 Digital Cover, Australian Geographic, October Issue, Australia
2026 Interview Feature, Lomography Magazine, Switzerland
2026 A Book of Simple Pleasures, Vol. 1, South Australian Tourism Commission, Australia
2026 Ephemere, Anarchy, Vol. 3, Japan
2026 Memory Cult Magazine, Issue 2, USA