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Pia Riverola’s poetic photography is a tribute to the diversity of cultures and their richness. Candid portraits, natural landscapes, street scenes, or still life, Riverola’s colorful imagery carries a deep empathy for her subjects and surroundings. Capturing moments with a dream-like quality, while reflecting her emotions through her photography evoking nostalgia in her audiences. Pia lives between Mexico City, LA, and Barcelona and shoots for clients like Calvin Klein, Loewe, NYT,  Wall Street Journal, and many others.

Her body of work ‘Flechazo’ -tributing Mexico, it’s culture and people,- was exhibited and published in Riverola’s debut monograph by Homecoming Gallery. The book was selected as part of the best Dutch book designs of 2022 – on view at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Her just released second book Días is published by Loose Joints.

Yūgen is Pia’s latest ongoing project, a visual love-letter to her second cultural love, Japan.

Homecoming talks to Riverola about her process, the ethics of image-making, and the role of beauty in times of uncertainty.

BIO

Pia Riverola’s poetic photography is a tribute to the diversity of cultures and their richness. Candid portraits, natural landscapes, street scenes, or still life, Riverola’s colorful imagery carries a deep empathy for her subjects and surroundings. Capturing moments with a dream-like quality, while reflecting her emotions through her photography evoking nostalgia in her audiences. Pia lives between Mexico City, LA, and Barcelona and shoots for clients like Calvin Klein, Loewe, NYT,  Wall Street Journal, and many others.

Her body of work ‘Flechazo’ -tributing Mexico, it’s culture and people,- was exhibited and published in Riverola’s debut monograph by Homecoming Gallery. The book was selected as part of the best Dutch book designs of 2022 – on view at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Her just released second book Días is published by Loose Joints.

Yūgen is Pia’s latest ongoing project, a visual love-letter to her second cultural love, Japan.

SHOWS

2024 – Yūgen solo exhibition at Homecoming Gallery, Amsterdam
2024 – Dias book publishing by Loose Joints
2023 – Flechazo solo exhibition presented by Homecoming Gallery at MENDO hotel de l’Europe, Amsterdam, NL
2023 – Flechazo nomination ‘Best Book designs of 2022’ on display at Stedelijk museum Amsterdam, NL
2023 – Flechazo at Photo London, part of a group exhibit presented by Homecoming Gallery featuring Derrick Ofosu Boateng, Fenna Schilling, Stig De Block and Pia Riverola, London, UK
2023 – Flechazo solo exhibition and book launch during Zona Maco with Homecoming Gallery & Ecleptic, Chapultepec CDMX, MX
2022 – Group exhibition at JO-HS CDMX, MX
2022 – Flechazo book publishing by Homecoming Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

PRESS

AnOther Mag
Nataal
Numero Mag
The Guardian
AD Mexico
Forbes