Freelance Photojournalist
Currently based in Brussels, Belgium.
Available for assignments.
E-mail: info@mathiasrodriguez.net
IG: @mathiasrodz_
Education, Awards and Grants
2026 – ‘Narrative Journalism’ Revista 5W. (Course)
2025 – ‘Manuel Chaves Nogales’ International Journalism Award in Photography. Asociación de la Prensa de Sevilla.
2025 – ‘FOCUS’ Fellowship for Journalists on Fundamental Rights, organized by Are We Europe and presented in La Redazzione, Rome.
2025 – ‘Observatori Sense Topics’. Grant to research the media coverage of migrant minors in the València. CEAR – Spanish Comission for Refugees and Unió de Periodistes Valencians.
2025 – Border Photography. With Sergi Camera. France. (Workshop)
2024 – Photobooks. With Julián Barón at Fotoliber. (Workshop)
2024 – Documentary Photography Publications. With Núria López Torres at IEFC Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya. (Course)
2019 – Journalism Scholarship at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
2018 – Documentary Photography. CC Pati Llimona, Barcelona. (Course)
2017/2018 – Journalism Scholarship Erasmus at Panteion University of Athens, Greece.
2017 – Journalism Scholarship at UdelaR, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2016/2021 – University Degree in Journalism. Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana.
2015/2016 – Professional Photography I. EASD Antonio Faílde, Ourense, Galicia.
2014/2015 – Master Degree in Ethics and Democracy. Universitat de València and Universitat Jaume I, València.
2012 – International Scholarship at USACH, Santiago de Chile.
2009/2014 – University Degree in Communications and Advertising. Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana.
Exhibitions, Publications and Projects
ARCHIVO FAMILIAR: PRESENCIAS Y AUSENCIAS. Photography Workshop with Mar Juan Tortosa. Online (2026)
FOCUS. Collective Exhibition and Print Magazine. Are We Europe. La Redazzione, Rome (2025)
UN AÑO DE LA DANA. Collective Exhibition. Congreso de los Diputados and Unió de Periodistes Valencians. Madrid (2025)
LA PAZ ROTA: VOCES DEL EXILIO COLOMBIANO. Documentary Film. Fundación por la Justicia and Comisión Colombiana de Juristas. Co-direction and camera operator with Joanna Giménez i García. València (2025)
LIMBO. Photobook. Autoedition. Xàtiva (2025)
LIMBO. Photographic Screening. El Taller La Isleta, Gran Canaria (2025)
D’ÀFRICA CAP A EUROPA: CAMINS DE FUGIDA I RESISTÈNCIA. Centre de Desenvolupament Rural – La Safor and Borja Abargues, La Font d’en Carrós, València (2024)
LA VEU DE LES MUNTANYES – Documentary Film. Camera operator. Directa.cat (2024)
DESENFOCADAS: HISTORIAS DE MIGRACIÓN Y REFUGIO. Collective Exhibition. Aquarius Supervivientes and Unió de Periodistes Valencians. UPV, València (2023)
SCHAMANN DOCUMENTA. Direction of a participative photography project organized with the CCA – Centro de Cultura Audiovisual, Cabildo de Gran Canaria and Asociación Atlas. LPGC, Canary Islands (2023)
DRET A L’HABITATGE AL CARRER PERÚ. Photographic Screening. PAH Safor-Valldigna and Borja Abargues. Teatre del Raval, Gandia (2023)
ARRELADES: UNA TERRA QUE LLUITA. Collective Exhibition. Ajuntament de Gandia, Gandia (2023) / Can Batlló, Barcelona (2024)
CAMARA EN MANO. Direction of a participatory photography project organized with Festival Internacional de Arte Urbano ‘Encuentro Paredes’ and Centro de Acogida de Menores de Rótova, València (2023)
LA MOSTRA DEL CANVI. Collective Exhibition. Caixa Rural, València (2022)
CAMARA EN MANO. Direction of a participatory photography project organized with Asociacionismo Idas y Vueltas. Montevideo, Uruguay (2020)
OCULUS. Collective Exhibition. Universitat Jaume I. Castelló de la Plana (2020)
FOTOGRAFÍA DOCUMENTAL. Collective Exhibition. Pati Llimona, Barcelona (2019)