What brings us together as humans? How do we celebrate life, love, beauty, death? With these questions in mind and a thirst for adventure, photographer Cristina García Rodero, camera in hand, continues to travel the world alone at 74 to capture the strikingly different ways in which humans engage in rituals, festivities and celebrations of all sorts.

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Fiercely independent, self-taught and critically acclaimed, Spanish photographer Cristina García Rodero, winner of the National Photography Award, was the first to capture her country’s festivals – religious and pagan – and it took her 15 years to complete them. Today, half a century later, this warm, strong-willed and tireless 74-year-old artist continues to document how life, love, beauty and death are celebrated in the world. Cristina García Rodero: Eyes of the Soul, delves into her creative process, offering a privileged look at the artist.

Graduated in Creative Writing and Film from Columbia College, United States, she is a screenwriter and documentary director. His interest behind the camera has always been linked to social issues such as the situation of aboriginal artists in Australia, apartheid in South Africa, censorship in Kuala Lumpur, the reintegration of imprisoned mothers in the United States, or the limbo in which encountered the sailors of the former Soviet Union, the central theme of his first feature-length documentary, Anchored (2010). She has worked as an assistant to director Norberto López Amado on the award-winning feature-length documentary How much does your building weigh, Mr Foster (2010) and solo scriptwriter and director of Brain Matters (2018) about the first years of life from a neuroscientific and educational point of view. She is a member of the Academy of Cinematographic Sciences and Arts of Spain and co-founder of the BERDE collective (www.berde.org), where she teaches film and creative writing workshops to adults with functional diversity, and directs the "Early Learning Library through Community Radio", a global initiative that distributes free audio resources to families and children who do not have access to the Internet. Her most recent documentary, Cristina García Rodero: Eyes of the Soul, is the result of four years of work following the photographer on her travels around the world.