Rocio Aguirre Venegas

ARTIST’S PROFILE

Rocío Aguirre V (1989, Concepción, Chile) is a Chilean photographer based in Madrid since 2019. Her work, intimate and timeless in spirit, is rooted in analog photography and a use of light closely tied to cinematic language.

She studied photography at ARCOS University (Chile), where she trained in traditional techniques. She later specialized in wet collodion at the Penumbra Foundation in New York (2017) and in alternative processes such as cyanotype (2018). Between 2018 and 2020, she taught fashion photography workshops at FotoDesign (Chile) and alternative techniques at the Centro Cultural de Artes Mixtas in Guadalajara, Spain.

Her social engagement has led her to collaborate on charity campaigns for organizations such as Patronato de la Infancia and Action Against Hunger.

In 2021, her work was exhibited in various cultural spaces in Spain as part of the CaixaForum Cultural Center’s programming.

She has been published in outlets such as Vogue, ID, CAP74024, and Forbes, worked in advertising for brands like Nike and McDonald’s, and collaborated on fashion projects for houses like Gucci and Dior. She has also produced covers and visual campaigns for musicians signed to Universal and Sony Music.

Her personal work has been exhibited at fairs and galleries in Chile, Germany, and Spain, and appears in art books such as The Age of Collage (Gestalten).

In 2019, she published HELADOS, her first book in a photo-postcard format, edited by Metalibro, and in 2022 she launched her photobook ROCIO [2008–2022], published by Paripé Books and presented in venues like La Fábrica and PhotoEspaña in Madrid.

She currently combines her fashion and commercial work with the production of personal projects exploring themes of identity, memory, and nostalgia.

Read about Rocío’s residency project in her own words… 

I will continue deepening my photographic practice through the development of my second photobook—a project born from a vital need to explore and reconstruct her memory. Drawing from diaries I kept between the ages of 8 and 21, I will transform intimate fragments of my story into images that never existed yet have always been present in my imagination. More than an autobiographical exercise, this project seeks to turn memory into a shared artistic experience—capable of awakening personal echoes in the viewer.