Ximena Echagüe is a Belgian-Argentine Documentary & Street Photographer, Jury & Curator based in Brussels and travelling around the world.
She has always lived in big cities with large floating populations, which naturally led me to empathize with them. We are all migrants in different ways, moving around and trying to improve our lot in life. She has been trained by street and documentary photographers from MAGNUM, IN-PUBLIC, LEIKA AKADEMIE and APF, in London, Paris, Brussels and India; and more recently, at the International Center of Photography in New York. Her work has been exhibited around the world in over 20 countries in Europe, America and Asia, including 4 Individual exhibitions and over 70 Group exhibitions. It has been published by New York Times, BBC News, Washington Post, Eyeshot, Fotografiska, Leica Fotografie International, L’Oeil de la Photographie, LensCulture, Life Framer, National Geographic, PH Museum, Street Photography Foundation, World Street Photography and many others.
She won the Second Prize at the Brussels Street Photography Festival 2019 and was Finalist at the Miami Street Photography Festival, StreetFoto San Francisco, Italian Street Photo Festival and Brussels Street Photography Festival several times. She was the Curator, Jury, Producer and Mentor of Women Street Photographers, founded by Gulnara Samoilova based in New York. She was the Curator of Fotógrafas LATAM, Latin American women photographers for their first exhibition in Paris in May 2022.
She is a member of the Little Box Collective and Progressive Street.
Her photography is in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, the International Center of Photography, New York, as well as several private collectors.
