Origin
Brazil
Visual training, Latin American culture and a sensitivity shaped by the diversity of identities and experiences.
Séfora Camazano · Valencia, Spain
The Artist
Séfora Camazano
Spanish-Brazilian Contemporary Artist · Figurative Portraiture · Valencia
Séfora Camazano is a Spanish-Brazilian contemporary artist based in Valencia. Her practice explores identity, memory, migration and human dignity through portraits of real people.
Her visual language combines photography, digital painting, Fine Art printing and hand intervention to create images in which individual experience acquires a symbolic and universal dimension.
Biography
A journey shaped
across three countries
Her artistic identity has been shaped between Brazil, Argentina and Spain — three territories that continue to influence the way she observes, listens and represents others.
Born in Brazil and initially trained in Graphic Design, Séfora Camazano developed a visual language rooted in composition, imagery and narrative. After living in Argentina, she settled in Spain in 2009, where she established a professional career in photography before progressively moving her practice toward contemporary art.
The transition from photography to a hybrid artistic practice was not simply a technical evolution. It emerged from the need to create images capable of holding layers of memory, personal testimony and symbolic meaning that a single discipline could not fully express.
In 2019, she founded Galerie Portraits, a studio dedicated to portraiture and artistic production. From Valencia, she develops projects in which listening, research and collaboration with the people portrayed form an inseparable part of the creative process.
Transition
Argentina
A period of displacement that broadened her relationship with memory, belonging and transformation.
Since 2009
Spain
Valencia became the place from which she consolidated her artistic practice and developed her main bodies of work.
The Practice
Portraiture as an
act of recognition
Séfora Camazano's work begins long before the final image. Each artwork grows out of conversations, encounters and processes of trust with the people portrayed. Photography is the starting point, but never the destination.
She does not portray invented characters. She works with real people and with stories shaped by migration, violence, loss, faith or personal reconstruction.
The pictorial intervention transforms the photographic record into presence. Layers, textures and symbolic elements allow each portrait to preserve the individuality of its subject while simultaneously engaging with shared human experiences.
Her work does not use suffering as spectacle. It focuses instead on what remains after adversity: dignity, identity and the capacity to begin again.
My works do not document suffering. They document the dignity that survives it.
Main Series
Projects that build
a shared visual language
01 · 2022–2024
Female Portraits: Looking Back to the Past
Twenty-five large-scale works that reinterpret compositions by Joaquín Sorolla through the stories of contemporary women.
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02 · 2023–2025
Female Portraits: Migrants
A photographic project exploring migration, personal memory and belonging, created in collaboration with women of different nationalities.
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03 · Since 2025
Portraits of the Soul
An ongoing series that approaches biblical narratives through a contemporary reflection on faith, identity and inner transformation.
Discover the project →Artistic Reference
In dialogue with
Joaquín Sorolla
Sorolla's presence in Séfora Camazano's work does not function as a literal homage or as an exercise in reproduction. His compositions act as historical structures that can be inhabited again by contemporary women.
By replacing the original figures with real people and their testimonies, the artist shifts the meaning of the scenes. Elegance, light and composition remain, but they begin to speak about migration, violence, freedom, motherhood and reconstruction.
This dialogue between past and present raises a central question: what happens when women once represented as models or archetypes now occupy the image as authors and protagonists of their own stories?
Creative Process
From listening
to the final artwork
Each project combines research, photographic sessions, composition, digital painting, Fine Art printing and hand intervention. The process evolves as the story of the person portrayed transforms the image.
Selected Career
Exhibitions and
recognition
A selection of institutional exhibitions, international projects and recognitions connected to the development of Séfora Camazano’s artistic practice.
01
Solo Exhibitions
2026
Retrats Femenins: Migrants
02
Recognition
2026
International Prize Caravaggio
2025
International Prize Leonardo da Vinci
2025
Artists on the French Riviera
2025
International Prize Poseidon
2025
The New Great Masters
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What an image
can preserve
A portrait can become a living archive: a place where a person is no longer observed from the outside and reclaims the right to be remembered through their own identity.
Artist Books
The work continues
beyond the image
Each book grows out of an artwork and expands on what the image can only begin to reveal: the stories of its protagonists, the creative process and the decisions that shaped the portrait.
Published
Freedom
The Art of Remembering Who You Are
Female Portraits: Looking Back to the Past · Vol. I
Inspired by the artwork Freedom and by Maryury’s real story, the book explores inner freedom, dignity, faith and the processes that shape the way a person rebuilds her life.
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Coming Soon
Respect
The Art of Being Seen
Female Portraits: Looking Back to the Past · Vol. II
The book explores the stories of Lourdes and Rosa, the creative process behind the artwork and the decisions that transformed two personal testimonies into a single image.
Discover the project →Studio · Valencia
Experience the work
more closely
For enquiries about available works, exhibitions, curatorial collaborations, interviews or studio visits, you can contact the artist directly.
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