About Theda Acha

Born in Lima, Peru (1971). I lived in Mexico since I was 17 years old, working as a photographer and photo editor for different magazines and publishing companies. I left my life in land for 10 years to sail around the world, collaborating with travel articles and photos for different print and on line magazine as well as my own photographic projects based in documentary portrait projects, I look for inspirational stories in different cultures.
I Hold a degree in Communications by the University of Nuevo Mundo in Mexico and studies of photography in Gris Art School and the Institute of Journalism Studies, both in Barcelona. My personal work and photography projects have been exhibited in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Peru, Spain, Italy and Japan. Several participations in photography biennials with different essays like fifteens; portraits of girls wearing their fifteenth birthday party dresses, an important event for Latin American families, inward sight portraits of blind people, portraits of survivors of the holocaust living in Mexico, portraits of Mexican artisans, among others.