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Lola Gomez is a visual journalist born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. In 2009, Gomez moved to the United States to reinvent herself pursuing her true passion, a career in photojournalism. She graduated with high honors from the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies in Daytona Beach, FL in 2013.

Since then, Gomez has worked for newspapers in the state of Florida such as the Orlando Sentinel and The Daytona Beach News-Journal, and also in Texas where she worked for the Austin American-Statesman and the Dallas Morning News until March 2023.

Gomez has the ability to capture global social issues within a single shot, and to create elaborate visual narratives through entire series of compelling images. Her ingenious use of a “frame within the frame”, as a way of giving more weight to some areas of the photograph than others, with directing lines that lead the audience’s gaze, ultimately controlling not only the way our gaze enters an image, but also where our attention focuses. With a heightened sense of urgency, Gomez’s images have the ability to evoke the drama -and often the trauma- of what it means to be a vulnerable human being in our contemporary world.

Gomez recently decided to pack up her life into a couple of suitcases once again to embark on a new professional and personal chapter in Europe. She is currently the photojournalist for the Catholic News Service, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’s newsroom based in Rome, Italy covering Pope Francis and the Vatican.

 

COLLECTIONS

  • Orlando Museum of Art. Orlando, FL


AWARDS & EXHIBITIONS

2023

2020

  • Monthly News Clip Contest (June). Second place in Photo Story/Essay by National Press Photographers Association (NPPA)

  • Barbara Jordan Media Award by Governor’s Committee On People With Disabilities for Just Like Me


2019

2018