Quintina Valero (b. 1970, Germany) is an award-winning documentary and press photographer. Her documentary work focuses on human rights and humanitarian crisis with an emphasis on migration, working often with local NGOs around the world.

Between April 2015 and May 2016 Quintina travelled to Ukraine to find out about the implications of Chernobyl’s accident.

Life After Chernobyl presents a collection of photographs that portray life from the Narodichi Region, 50 km southwest of Chernobyl’s nuclear plant, one of the worst hit areas by the radiation and only detected five years after the explosion.

These photographs are a testimony to the communities living with the poisonous legacy of Chernobyl. The radiation is, and continues to be, their invisible enemy.

Spanish artist Quintina Valero  (b. 1970) after a career in finance she moved to London in 2001 where she studied Photojournalism at the London College of Communication. Her documentary work focuses on human rights and humanitarian crisis. She has documented nomadic lives that included Bedouins, travellers and gypsies for several years. Her passion to learn about their identity and culture took her to the Balkans, Jordan, France, Spain and England, documenting their traditions, festivities and rituals. From 2014 she is documenting the situation of migrants in Europe. (GX press-release)