Alinka Echeverría (b. Mexico City,1982) is a visual artist whose photography and video work lies at the crossroads between documentary and fine art. Inspired by the real world she uses the tools of visual anthropology and documentary practice, and then challenges these through experimental processes to create conceptual series.
Her work is enriched by the treatment of her subject, as she weaves concepts of place, collective memory, ritual and identity. These concepts of man and his some times spiritual surroundings instil in the work a wonder, a presence and ultimately a longing that pushes Echeverria's work into a new sphere of documentation. She sheds the pre-conceived notions of documentary, anthropology, fine art, investigative journalism, and compounds these into a new form, a conceptual documentary.
She is a graduate of The International Center of Photography (New York) and has an M.A in Social Anthropology (The University of Edinburgh). In 2011, she is the Winner of the HSBC Prix pour la Photographie and a participant of the World Press Photo Foundation's Joop Swart Masterclass. Alinka has been featured in over thirty exhibitions worldwide, notably the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007), Pingyao Photo Festival (China, 2008), The New York Photo Festival (2010), Maison European de la Photographie (Paris, 2011), the National Portrait Gallery (London, 2011).