Ale Pedraza Buenahora is a non-binary journalist, self-taught photographer, and multidisciplinary artist interested in redefining standard approaches to visualisation and storytelling with an axis fixed in experiences outside the status quo. As a trans migrant and child of the Colombian diaspora, they are always searching for raw and intimate ways to accurately capture their intersecting communities' experiences of self, while prioritizing the multifaceted voices of its members. They use collaborative art-making, vulnerability, photojournalism, and prose as a methodology to create a sustainable and ever-adapting system that could repair the damage done to their communities by late-stage capitalism, colonialism, the climate crisis and white supremacy inherited of the art and media industries. At the core of their practice is a yearning for a reality in which change, radical love, and the care for others and our land is at the root of their communities' creations and interactions.

 

They have published written work and have contributed photography at YES! Magazine, Teen Vogue, City Limits, Ms. Magazine, Rewire, THEM and LGBTQ+ Nation, they have previously worked at Democracy Now! Español and Planned Parenthood of New York. Their art practice explores the intersection of subjects such as sex, gender, masculinity, migration, reproductive health, and bodily autonomy. They have an M.A. in Journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and they are a proud product of the New York City public school system.

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Ale Pedraza Buenahora was born in Bogota - Colombia and is based in Brooklyn - New York.