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Lola Gomez is a visual journalist born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. In 2009, she moved to the United States to reinvent herself and pursue 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 across Florida, including the Orlando Sentinel and The Daytona Beach News-Journal, and later in Texas for the Austin American-Statesman and The Dallas Morning News until March 2023.

Gomez has the ability to distill global social issues into a single frame and to build powerful visual narratives through cohesive, emotionally resonant image sequences. Her signature use of a “frame within the frame” strengthens key areas of the photograph, guiding the viewer’s eye through intentional lines and visual pathways that shape not only how the audience enters an image, but where their attention ultimately rests. With an acute sense of urgency, her images capture the drama—and often the trauma—of what it means to be a vulnerable human being in today’s world.

Recently, Gomez once again packed her life into a couple of suitcases to begin a new professional and personal chapter in Europe. She is currently the photojournalist for Catholic News Service, the newsroom of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, based in Rome. She covered Pope Francis during his final years in the papacy and now covers Pope Leo XIV and the daily life of 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