Born 1986, is a Catalan artist whose work examines biopolitics, grief, and women’s rights, with a particular focus on the structures that regulate and control bodies. Working across photography, text, and archival material, her practice often takes the form of long-term research-based projects and books.

Her early work addressed eating disorders, notably The Epilogue (2014), which documents the indirect victims of bulimia through the aftermath of a family’s loss. Abril is best known for her ongoing project A History of Misogyny, which investigates systemic violence against women across cultures. Its chapters include On Abortion (2018), addressing the repercussions of abortion control worldwide, and On Rape (2022), which examines gender-based myths, institutional failure, and the legal structures that perpetuate rape culture.

On Abortion won the Photobook of the Year award at the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. Abril has received numerous international honors, including the Tim Hetherington Trust Visionary Award (2018), the Royal Photographic Society’s Hood Medal (2019), the Paul Huf Award from Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam (2020), and Spain’s Premio Nacional de Fotografía (2023).

Born in Barcelona, Abril studied journalism before moving to New York to study photography at the International Center of Photography. She later joined Fabrica, Benetton’s research center in Italy, where she worked as a photographer and photo editor for Colors magazine.

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Biography text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), English edition. Retrieved January 19, 2026.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laia_Abril