About
Sandra Cattaneo Adorno took up photography in 2013 at the age of 60 and has since gone on to garner extensive recognition for her work. The author of The Other Half of the Sky and Águas de Ouro (Radius Books, 2019 and 2020) Cattaneo Adorno’s work was recently published in Gulnara Samoilova’s landmark book Women Street Photographers (Prestel 2021) and Portrait of Humanity (Hoxton Mini Press, 2019). Cattaneo Adorno received the 2021 and 2020 Julia Margaret Cameron Award, the 2020 International Photography Award, the 2019 Portrait of Humanity Award in collaboration with Magnum Photos, and was a 2019 National Geographic finalist. She has exhibited work at Somerset House, London; Photoville, Brooklyn; Miami Street Photography Festival; Italian Photo Festival, Venice; PX3 Prix de la Photographie de Paris, Paris, and Women Street Photographers Exhibition in Paris, among many others.
In April of 2022 Sandra launched her solo exhibition during the Venice Biennale in Italy. Organized by the European Cultural Centre and curated by Women Street Photographers founder Gulnara Samoilova, the exhibition features selections from her monographs Águas de Ouro and Scarti di Tempo (Radius Books, 2020 and July 2022).
AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS
2022 Critical Mass Finalist
2022 Luupe list of best books of 2022 with Scarti di Tempo
2022 Neutral Density Awards - ND special Photographer of the Year & 1st Prize Category Street Photography
2022 Eyeshot Open Call Winner with Águas de Ouro
2022 International Photo Awards - 1st Place, People/ Street Photography
2021 Lucie Foundation - Open Call Finalist
2021 LensCulture Street Photography Awards - Jurors’ Pick
2021 AI-AP American Photography Awards Category Winner
2021 Focus Photo LA - Finalist
2021 Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards Series - Winner
2021 Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards Single Images - Winner
2021 International Photography Awards - 1st Prize in the category People/ Street Photography & Honourable Mention in the category Fine Art/ Abstract
2021 Monochrome Awards 3rd Prize in the Street Photography category and two Honourable Mentions
2021 Street Photography Awards organized by DPSP Street - 1st Prize
2021 LifeFramer - World Travellers Editor’s Pick
2021 PX3 Prix de la Photographie de Paris - 1st Prize & Gold in the Special/ Street Photography category
2021 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards - 2nd Prize Street Photography Series, 3rd Prize Black&White Series & four Honourable Mentions
2020 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards 1st Prize Winner
2020 International Photography Awards Category Winner
2020 URBAN Photo Awards Winner 1st Prize
2020 ND Street Photography Awards 2nd Prize by Neutral Density Magazine & three Honourable Mentions
2019 American Illustration-American Photography Awards - Selected Winner
2019 Portrait of Humanity Award in collaboration with Magnum Photos - Selected Winner
2019 Art on a Postcard at PhotoLondon
2019 Neutral Density Magazine People Photographer of the Year
2019 National Geographic 100 Contest Finalist
2018 PDN Exposure Award
2017 American Illustration-American Photography Awards
2016 Sony Awards Honourable Mention
Honourable Mentions
2022 IPA Awards - Fine Art Books, Honourable Mention
2022 Tokyo International Foto Awards - Honourable Mention in the category Fine Arts with Scarti di Tempo
2022 reFocus Awards - Category Travel, two Honourable Mentions, one Nominee - Category Street Photography, one Honourable Mention, one Nominee
2022 European Cultural Centre - Personal Structures - Special Mention in the Photography category
2022 18th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards - Street Photography Series - Honourable Mention
2021 17th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards- Honourable Mentions in the following categories: Abstract Series (twice), Abstract Singles, Documentary Series, Landscape Series, Street Singles
2021 ND Awards- Honourable Mention in the Fine Art, Abstract category
2020 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards - Honourable Mention in three categories
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Sandra Cattaneo Adorno Solo Exhibition, European Cultural Centre, Palazzo Mora, Venice, April 23rd to November 27th 2022
2022 Sandra Cattaneo Adorno, Brazilian Consulate, New York City, November 15th 2022 to January 17th 2023
Collective Exhibitions
2023 Women Street Photographers, Virtual Exhibition
2022 Fotofestival Solar Fortaleza, Brazil
2022 Eyeshot Magazine Awards Winners, Galleria del Cembalo, Rome, November
2022 Women Street Photographers exhibition in Hyderabad, India
2022 Paris Photos
2022 FIEBRE Photofestival, Madrid
2022 HeadOn Festival, Sydney (online exhibition)
2022 Lens Culture exhibition, Caelum Gallery, New York City
2022 Fotografas Latam, Paris
2022 Women Street Photographers exhibition, New York City
2022 Feature Shoot Exhibition at ClampArt Gallery, New York City
2021 Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards Series, Berlin & Paris exhibitions, November 2021
2021 Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards Single Images Exhibition, Los Angeles, October 2021
6th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography, Barcelona, December 2021
2021 Lucie Foundation - Open Call Finalist Online Exhibition (click here to view)
PX3 Prix de la Photographie de Paris, Paris, October 2021
Treviso Photo Festival - Special Guest - Exhibitions on billboards around Treviso and at Luigi Bailo Museum, September 2021
Focus Photo LA Summer 2021, Los Angeles, September 2021
Women Street Photographers Exhibition, Paris, July 2021
Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, June 2021
Fotografas Latam 2021, Paris, TBC
The Billboard Creative, Los Angeles from April 2021
Women Street Photographers Virtual Exhibition, April 2021
14th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards 2020 exhibition, Barcelona
Women Street Photographers Exhibition in Chelyabinsk, Russia 2020
Italian Photo Festival - Special Guest - Venice, 2020
Trieste Photo Days, Trieste, Italy 2020
Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, india, 2020
Women Street Photographers End of the Year Exhibition, New York, 2020
Organ Vida International Photography Festival 2019 in Zagreb, Croatia
Miami Photo Fest in 2019
Street Photo Milano 2019
Sofia Street Photography Festival 2019
Kuala Lumpur Photography Festival 2019
Bielso-Biala Foto Art Festival 2019
Brussels Street Photography Festival 2019
Xposure Photo Festival 2019 in the United Arab Emirates
Lagos Photo Festival Portrait of Humanity Global Tour 2019
Photoville in Brooklyn in 2019
Photo NOLA Festival 2019 at Louisiana State Museum
Photoville in Brooklyn in 2018
Kaunas Photo Festival in 2018
Women Street Photographers exhibition in New York 2018
Miami Street Photography Festival 2018
Independent Photographer 2017 show in Berlin
Sony Awards 2016, Somerset House, London