Prizes

2024
● November: “I dry my hair in the wind” project selected by Head On, Sydney.
“I dry my hair in the wind” project selected by Head On for its international exhibition in Sydney, November 2024.
● September: “I dry my hair in the wind” project selected by Encontros da Imagem, Braga.
https://encontrosdaimagem.com/2024/
● June: “Real Toys 1/ Real Toys 1” image, winner of the 2nd prize in the people and portrait category by the Museum of Photographic Arts in Miami.
https://news.tampaairport.com/special-exhibit-to-feature-international-photography-competition-winners-in-tpas-main-terminal/
● February: “Photographer's Assistant” - 2nd Visual Story award by The Independent Photographer.
https://independent-photo.com/es/themes/february-2024/

2023
● March: Project published by Dodho Magazine in its 24th issue, March.
https://www.dodho.com/shop/magazine/issue-24-print-edition-dodho-magazine/
● February: “The Photographer's Assistant” image chosen as one of the 25 best portraits of 2023 by Dodho.
https://www.dodho.com/winners-portrait-awards-2023/

2022
● April: Winning “Sharing/Sharing” image to be part of the Annual Women Street Photographers Exhibition in New York.
https://www.womenstreetphotographers.com/nyc-exhibitions

2018 - 2019
● In 2018 and 2019, I adopted and gave birth with an absolute rest pregnancy for 6 months.

2017
● December: Honorable Mention for Black&White Spider Awards in the Children of the World category.
https://www.thespiderawards.com/gallery/12th/professional/children-of-the-world/winners/181389
October: “Shelters and Futures” Exhibition in Lorena Saravia, CDMX
● June: Finalist at the San Francisco Street Photography Festival.
https://streetfoto.org/sf2017-contest-finalists/#bwg14/203

2016
● December: “Going Out and Hideing/Reaching and Hiding” image nominated Photo of the Day by Siena Photography Awards.
https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/photo-of-the-day-from-siena-international-photo-awards-82062435/82062435#18
● September: “Shelters and Futures” exhibition on home housing at the Spanish Ministry of Education in Mexico (Curated by Virginia Roy)
https://www.ateneoesmex.com/inicio/exposicion-fotografica-refugios-y-futuros-de-alejandra-lopez-zaballa/
https://www.elimparcial.es/noticia/171035/opinion/la-fotografia-de-alejandra-lopez-zaballa.html

● June: Exhibition at PhotoLondon Seomerset House, June 2016.
https://photolondon.org/event/lensculture-exposure-awards/
https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-35559387
● March: Exhibition at Art Takes Manhattan.
https://www.spainculture.us/city/new-york/art-takes-manhattan-pop-up-show/
● February: Monographic exhibition “Beginning and End” (about the home and an asylum) at the Spanish Ministry of Culture in Mexico.
http://ccemx.org/principio-y-fin/

2015
● February: “Real Toys/Real Toys” 3rd prize single image by Lensculture in its Exposure Awards 2015 competition.
https://www.lensculture.com/2015-lensculture-exposure-award-winners