Laia Abril

Laia Abril (Barcelona, 1986) is a photographer and multi platform storyteller. After finishing her degree in Journalism she moved to New York to attend ICP courses, where she decided to focus her projects in telling intimate stories which raises uneasy realities related with femininity. Was then in 2009 when she enrolled for 2 years FABRICA – the Artist Residency of the Benetton Research Centre in Italy. In 2009 and 2010 she was a finalist of the Ian Parry, participating in the exhibition at the Getty Gallery in London both years, first with her project on the young lesbian community in Brooklyn, and then with ‘Last Cabaret‘ a project on a sex club in Barcelona.
Currently she just released her new book project ‘The Epilogue’ published by Dewi Lewis Publishing. This third chapter documents the story of the Robinson family – and the aftermath of losing their 26 year-old daughter to bulimia; the indirect victims of eating disorders, the unwilling eyewitnesses of a very painful degeneration. Recently the book was reviewed by The Guardian’s writer Sean O’Hagan: “The Epilogue holds fast to the formal rules of a certain kind of posthumous biography told though first-person testimonies. […] But the images and ephemera give it another level of poignancy, accentuating the sense of deep absence family anecdotes now carry.”