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.
Created solely with natural light, her images reveal the quiet poetics of the ocean and the fragile connections that sustain life. Rooted in a feminine and ecological perspective, Trejo’s practice proposes beauty, attention, and tenderness as acts of resistance and care in a time of environmental fragility.
hola@raqueltrejo.com.au
RAQUEL TREJO
ART CV
Education
2022 Bachelor of Creative Arts (Screen), Flinders University, 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
Awards and Honours
2025 Official Selection (Professional), International Photography Awards
2025 Finalist, LOOK! Prize, Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh), Australia
2025 Nominee, One Shot Award, BBA Prizes, Berlin, Germany
2025 Highly Commended, Portrait Category Award, Australian Photographic Prize, Australia
2025 Honourable Mention, Foto Nostrum Pollux Awards, Barcelona, Spain
2025 Bronze Winner (Technique), Analog Sparks Awards
2025 Honourable Mention, The Flow Photography Competition, USA
2025 Second Prize, Grounded Festival of Yorke Peninsula, Australia
2023 Runner-Up, AdMental Campaign, South Australia
2003 Lund University International Scholarship, Lund University, Sweden
Exhibitions
2026 Topographies of Self, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Virtual Gallery
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
2026 Inner Lens – Inner Worlds, Online Exhibition, Artdoc Photography Magazine
Screening/Projections
2025 Projection Selection, Narnimmaginaria, Italy
Publications
2023 Digital Cover, Australian Geographic, October Issue, Australia
2026 Interview Feature, Lomography Magazine, Switzerland (upcoming)
2026 Ephemere, Anarchy, Vol. 3, Japan (upcoming)
2026 Memory Cult Magazine, Issue 2, USA