Leonora Vicuña

Leonora Magdalena Vicuña Navarro (born 11 December 1952) is a Chilean photographer, film editor and educator. Through her father, Vicuña is the granddaughter of Carlos Vicuña Fuentes, the niece of Rosa Vicuña and Teresa Vicuña and the cousin of Cecilia Vicuña. She studied photography at the School of Photo Art of Chile in 1979, and audiovisual and multimedia production at the École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle in Paris in 2000.

In 1981, she was one of the founding members of the Association of Independent Photographers (Asociación de Fotógrafos Independientes; AFI), which worked to distribute photos of urban living conditions and protests under Chile's military dictatorship. She also acted as a cultural manager, organizing meetings of young artists. In 2011, she began teaching a photography course at Alberto Hurtado University's School of Journalism. and Domus Aural: Leonora Vicuña y Jorge Olave at the Estación Mapocho Cultural Centre (2011).

Awards and recognition Vicuña received FONDART recognitions in 2000–2001 and 2006–2007.

In 2003 and 2004, she received nominations for the Altazor Award for National Arts for Bares y garzones: un homenaje visual and Lecciones de cosas from the group exhibition Relatos breves, both in the photography category. In 2010, she won the Altazor in the photography category for Visible/Invisible, together with Helen Hughes and Kena Lorenzini. Two years later, she received a nomination for Domus Aural, together with .