“Laboratoria” documents creative approaches to repopulate rural areas.
It invites us into a constellation of spaces for exploration for scientists, researchers, and visionaries devoted to protecting the natural world.
It is a visual project documenting the intersection of experimentation and knowledge as a creative path to addressing the urgent issues related to environmental conservation and the revitalization of rural life through innovation, pointing to real alternatives that lead toward a sustainable future—ultimately, the only viable one.
Author biography
Ana Palacios is a visual journalist focused on human rights, animal welfare and environmental issues through a solutions journalism approach.
She is a 2026 Vital Impacts Fellow and, since 2023, a mentor at the Canon Europe Development Student Programme. She has received grants from the National Geographic Society and the International Women's Media Foundation and is a member of Women Photograph.
Her work has been awarded, exhibited, and published worldwide in media such as National Geographic, CNN, 6 Mois, The Guardian Weekend Magazine, GEO Germany, New Internationalist, Terra Mater, MO, Het Blad, Days Japan, Al Jazeera, Stern, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, Greenpeace Magazin, XL Semanal, and El País Semanal, among others.
Public speaker at universities, photography festivals, and art centers, she instructs, educates, and inspires audiences on human rights topics, sharing personal experiences and exploring how journalism and photography can be powerful tools for social change.
She has published three books: Art in Movement, about art as a tool for social change in Uganda; Albino, about skin cancer affecting people with albinism in Tanzania; and Slave Children: The Back Door, documenting how enslaved children in West Africa escape from slavery — a project that also became a large exhibition and a documentary film available on the Filmin platform.