The inaugural IPF Photobook Award recipient. Revisit the project and photographic work recognized at the festival’s first edition.
In 2025, Inglewood Photo Festival awarded its inaugural Photobook Award to Portuguese documentary photographer Maria Abranches for her project Here is Maria.
This page preserves that recognition as part of IPF’s first edition—a place to return to the work and the artist behind it.
Centered on Ana Maria Jeremias, the project brings together photography and archival research to explore domestic labor, identity, and memory.
The work invites us to spend time with a life too often left out of view, and to consider the stories that photographs can help preserve.
Maria Abranches is a Portuguese documentary photographer whose work focuses on human rights. She moved from architecture into photojournalism after studying analog photography at ArCo and interning at Público.
Her projects explore histories of Portuguese colonialism and African hair heritage. Here is Maria was developed during the Masterclass Narrativa with photographer Mário Cruz.
Revisit the opening of IPF 2025, explore the festival archive, or discover the other artists recognized through IPF’s awards.