Anita Pouchard Serra

Anita Pouchard Serra is a French-Argentinian photojournalist, visual storyteller, and educator with a background as a ballet dancer, architect, and an anthropologist. She is based in Buenos Aires and works between Latin America and France.

She photographs what she lives, rather than what she sees, about issues that are many times personal, but connected with current societal issues like identity, migration, territory, and women’s rights with a transdisciplinary approach and exploration from drawing to performance.

Pouchard's personal work and long-term projects have been supported by the French National Library Grande Commande Photographique, Le Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP)—National Center for Visual Arts, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, the Pulitzer Center, National Geographic Emergency Fund, the WE WOMEN grant, the Moving Walls grant by Open Society Foundations, and the International Women’s Media Foundation.

Pouchard won a special award by UN-Migration for South American Journalism (2021) and the Gabo Prize of Fundación Gabo (2024). She has been nominated for World Press Photo's Joop Swart Masterclass, selected for the Eddie Adams Workshop XXXIV, and was included in the major photo book and exhibition 50 Years of French Photography, curated by Michel Poivert.

Pouchard collaborates with The New York Times, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Le Monde, DIE ZEIT, El País, Revista Anfibia, and Revista Crisis, among other outlets.

She exhibited personal projects at Photoville and Open Society Foundations (New York), Sharjah Biennial 15 (United Arab Emirates), French National Library, and Grange aux belles (Paris), among others. She is a visual storytelling teacher and lecturer in Argentina, the United States, Mexico, among other places, and is a member of Women Photograph, Foto Féminas.