Constanza Portnoy

Constanza Portnoy (born 1980s) is an Argentine photographer and photojournalist who has won a number of international awards. She was selected as Photographer of the Year 2017 by the Tokyo International Foto Awards, was the 2018 laureate of the French-based International Women Photographers Association, and in August 2018 was the winner of the Beca Oxfam FNPI award for journalism on gender inequality.

Biography Born in Buenos Aires in the 1980s, Portnoy studied psychology at the University of Buenos Aires, graduating when she was 23. While working with children and older people with disabilities, she became aware of problems stemming from their lack of family connections and the failure of health policies and disability laws. She found that by taking up photography, she was able to communicate their distress and fight for improvements. She then became involved in photography as a basis for documentary research, combining psychology with photography.