Born in Quito, Ecuador, Anamaria Chediak studied in Boston and mastered photography in Madrid, which cemented her passion for sharing her world vision through visual stories. She is driven by an insatiable curiosity, born from her early explorations of the Andes and the Galapagos Islands.
Over the years, her work has led her to travel across five continents, avidly capturing the essence of the cultures and natural worlds she encounters, while also being keenly aware of the inner journey one experiences, the insights and perspectives one acquires that nourish our lives in unexpected and remarkable ways.

As the environmental crisis has grown, she has found herself employing photography more politically, as a tool for raising awareness. Her exaltation of the natural world has increasingly become a cry for awareness and for change. “Time is running out. We are living an environmental crisis with unprecedented changes. I aim my photography to be a reminder of the responsibility we all have in working together as a whole, to protect vulnerable wildlife from extinction, restore threatened ecosystems and preserve communities with their unique and diverse traditions as a cultural legacy. Diversity should be the world’s strength, not an excuse for conflict”.

Chediak regards her most recent project ”Memories through the Liquid Desert Waves" as, technically, some of the most challenging images she’s created. They´re composed of different shots of domestic settings engulfed by desert sands, stitched together slowly and painstakingly. She describes the creative process of (re)composition as reminiscent of how we arrange memories in our minds. That transient feeling she experienced those days in the desert, where she stood struggling to make sense of these fleeting glimpses of a world now vanished, a world where nature had taken back what was hers.

Chediak’s books include "GALÁPAGOS Life & Evolution" (2018) with a foreword of Philippe Cousteau and Ashlan Gorse Cousteau; “AFRICA” (2010) with a foreword of Yolanda Yolanda Kakabadse, President 2010-2017 of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF International), “BLOOM” (2008); “ETHOS” (2003); “EL ESCONDRIJO DEL TORO” (1998). She collaborated with Ashlan and Philippe Cousteau in their book “OCEAN FOR DUMMIES” (2021) and her work about the Arctic was published in the book “PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE VISUAL CULTURE” (2021) Italy.

Chediak has been awarded Woman of the Year in Visual Arts (2020), Revista Hogar, Ecuador; LensCulture, Journey (2020) Finalist; Sony World Photography Awards (2019) National Award Winner, London; Caminos de Hierro (2018) Finalist, Madrid; Photographer of the Year (2014) Enrique Ponce Award, Spain; various Silver and Bronze Awards at Epson International Pano Awards; twenty-eight Honorable Mentions in the IPA International Photography Awards (2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020); shortlisted in three categories for the CUPOTY Awards (2020)

Chediak´s work has been exhibited in Ecuador, Latin America, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Italy. Some of the exhibitions include “Shapes of Living/Living Earth”, Art Site Fest 2021, Heritage Lab Italgas, Torino, Italy (Nov 2021-Jan 2022); “Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition 2019”, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom (2019); “Caminos de Hierro”, a Traveling Exhibition through 13 cities in Spain (Sep 2018 until January 2020); “GALAPAGOS Life & Evolution” , Solo exhibition with Video Mapping, Quito - Ecuador (Nov 2018); “El Final de la Aventura”, Institut D’Estudis Fotografics de Catalunya, Barcelona - Spain (2017); “El Final de la Aventura", CEART, Madrid - Spain (2016); “Une vision graphique feminine” À l’Espace Culturel Pablo Romero, Nimes - France (2014); “Audiovisual exhibition Jose Tomás en solitario”, Aula Magna del Convento de San Francisco, Quito (2013); “Regards de toreros”, Château de la Tuilerie, Nimes-Francia (2012); “Mano a Mano a La Féria des Vendanges”, Nimes - France, (2012); “Africa”, Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Quito (2010); “Gestos Jondos”, Quito (2009); “Bloom”, Quito (2008); “Shapes, Colors, and Textures”, AH Design Miami, during Art Basel (2008); “Ethos”, Main Gallery at the Plaza de Las Ventas, Madrid (2005); “Cuento Ecuatoriano”, Madrid, Spain, in the main exhibition hall of the Canal de Isabel II (2003); “Exposición simultánea Francia – Ecuador”, Quito – Lyon, (2002); “Desnudando el Alma”, Museo de la Cuidad in Quito and Guayaquil (2000); “Luces y Sombras”, Quito (1997) and “Woman’s Eye”, FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales) in Quito (1996)