Sofia Lopezmanan
Sofía López Mañán is an Argentinian artist, photographer, filmmaker, and naturalist whose interdisciplinary work explores the relationship between humans and the environment. Her practice merges art and scientific inquiry through photography, film, archival material, and speculative storytelling. She has exhibited internationally and collaborated with philosophers, scientists, and linguists to question anthropocentric narratives. Her work has been supported by National Geographic, the Pulitzer Center, and Journalism Funds. She holds a BA in Fine Arts and further studies in anthrozoology, naturalism, and mycology.
Sofía López Mañán’s artistic practice bridges the visual and environmental sciences, drawing from naturalism, anthrozoology, and field research to explore how human identity is shaped through relationships with the non-human world. Working across photography, film, drawing, and archives, she creates immersive, layered narratives that challenge the cultural constructs of nature and interrogate human exceptionalism.
She has developed long-term investigative projects across Latin America—on themes ranging from poetic resistance in beekeeping to the return of wild horses and the survival of endangered amphibians. These projects have been supported by National Geographic, Pulitzer Center, Journalism Funds Europe, and On the Edge.
Her visual work has been recognized by POY Latam, Sony, and PhMuseum and published by The New York Times Magazine, El País, and Gatopardo. Her debut documentary, La Odisea de Kamatsu, was selected for BAFICI 2024 and international festivals.
With a background in Fine Arts and training in naturalist disciplines, López Mañán creates work that seeks to reimagine the boundaries between species and disciplines—collaborating with scientists, linguists, and philosophers to examine how we inhabit the planet, and what it means to care across difference.
At the core of Sofía López Mañán’s work is a search for new ways of seeing, sensing, and narrating life in a time of ecological crisis. Her practice rejects binary thinking—human/animal, nature/culture, subject/object—and instead invites porous, speculative, and poetic encounters across species and disciplines. Through visual storytelling, she investigates how stories shape ecological consciousness and how aesthetics can act as a form of activism or care.
López Mañán often works in close dialogue with scientists, linguists, and local communities to develop situated, research-driven projects. Her methodologies are slow, immersive, and intuitive—sometimes tracking a single theme or species across years and geographies. Whether documenting the symbolic role of birds in indigenous cosmologies or the ethical complexities of cloning animals, her work seeks to open space for ambivalence, contradiction, and wonder.
Currently, she is developing The Book of Humans, a continuation of her investigation into human identity through interspecies relationships. Like much of her work, it blurs the line between documentary and fiction, inviting us to question the stories we inherit—and the ones we must begin to tell differently to survive.
Sofía is fluent in Spanish and English and frequently mentors emerging artists and photographers. She combines her scientific studies in anthrozoology and mycology with her artistic practice to create hybrid works that challenge anthropocentric views. She has led workshops on environmental storytelling and collaborates with universities and conservation organizations across Latin America. Her interdisciplinary approach blends field research, speculative storytelling, and visual art to engage diverse audiences on urgent ecological issues.
Sofía López Mañán’s body of work includes the forthcoming book El Libro de la Naturaleza (Sed Editorial, 2024) and contributions to prestigious publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Vice, El País, Gatopardo, Geo, and Stern. As a filmmaker, her debut feature documentary La Odisea de Kamatsu was selected for the BAFICI 2024 International Film Competition and screened at numerous festivals worldwide, earning critical acclaim.
Her photographic and multimedia work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions at notable venues including Centro Cultural Rojas and Centro Cultural Kirchner in Buenos Aires, Unseen Amsterdam and 38CC Gallery in the