Claudia Patricia Adeath Villamil is a Mexican photographer currently based in Copenhagen. She has a university degree in communication studies and has taken photography courses. Her experience includes freelance photography, founding organizations focused on art and culture, and curating exhibitions. She has photographed for magazines, newspapers, and NGOs in Mexico, London, and Denmark.
Claudia Adeath - Mexican Photographer Based in Copenhagen
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Claudia Patricia Adeath Villamil
Born in Mexico City; currently based in Copenhagen
Civil status Married (with Dane), one child.
Education: University degree in Communication Studies from University De
Valle, Mexico City. She has participated in photo-documental
courses conducted by Mary Ellen Mark and Josef Rodríguez,
carried out photographic studies at Westminster College in
London and participated in documental research studies at
Birbeck College, London University.
Experience Record:
Currently developing PhotoTrack, a photographic services
company.
2014 Freelance photographer. Developing a series of landscapes in
Denmark.
2013 Developing the photo documentary “Intimate Cosmography” in
Mexico City.
2012 Founder and project leder of CkulturA an organisation created
to develop projects focused on the integration of arts and
cultures in Denmark. www.ckulturA.org
2012-2011 Working within the cultural area at the Mexican Embassy in
Copenhagen.
2010 Art Coordinator and photographer of The Urban Installation:
“Rodar y Rodar, urban equilibrium” in Mexico City.
www.rodaryrodar.org
2009 Curator and Coordinator of the exhibition “Chilango Hawkers”
for Metropolis Biennale 2009 in Copenhagen.
http://cphmetropolis.dk/dk/metropolis2009/1/chilangohawke
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2009-2008 Developed a communitarian exhibition, “El rostro cambia,
cuando tiene nombre” (“You change, when I know your name”)
communitarian work, where she portrayed 60 persons working
in the same street for many years. The portraits were exposed
in the same street where they work, in the centre of Mexico
City.
2007 Work as freelance photographer for Dansk Ungdoms Fœllesråd
(DUF) taking photos of events and portraying staff members.
www.duf.dk
Published a photo documental in “Jordens Folk” magazine,
Etnografisk tidsskrift.
2006-2004 Fundator and director of the NGO Muevete por tu Ciudad A.C.
www.muevetextuciudad.org
2004-2002 Freelance photographer for different magazines and news
papers in Mexico City: Lunea Cornea, Los Universitarios,
Gatopardo, Origina, Cuartoscuro, A diseño, Día 7, Contenido,
Elementos, Media Link, El Universal, Suplemento Derecho de
Mirada, Milenio, El Financiero, Agencia Reuters, The Daily Book
of Photography.
2001-1999 Coordinator of the communication area of Ednica IAP, a NGO
working with street kids in Mexico City, where she produces a
number of images concerning the life of street children.
www.ednica.org.mx
1998 Freelance photographer for Master Magazine and Geomundo in
Mexico.
Produced a number of images for the City Museum of Mexico
as part of the exposition “Ojo, por ver no se paga”.
Create the photo-reportages: “Homeless women”, “Street
Children”, “Refuse Collectors”, “Mechanics’ in Buenos Aires”, as
well as the exposition “Ciclo” .
1997 Freelance photographer in London for the Brazilian News paper
O’Globo
Carried out an expedition to the desert of Algeria to visit the
refugee camps of the Western Sahara, where she produced an
exposition and several photo-reportages for Mexican magazines
and newspapers.
1995 Developed social themes in her photography and produced her
first documental essays.
1995-1993 Chief of the promotion & merchandising apartment of Philips
Mexico. Where she also worked as a freelance photographer for
the internal magazine.
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Expositions
During her career as photographer she has moreover exposed
in a number of occasions in Museums, galleries and Cultural
Houses in Mexico, London, Spain, United States, Luxemburg
and Denmark.
Publiations “La Muerte de tu lado” (“Death on your side”) (2007).
“Alzando el Vuelo” (“Raising wings”)(2000)
“Crees que has dicho todo sobre mi” (Do you think you have
say everything about me). Situations,experiences and actions
about street kids in Mexico. Compilation (2001).