María Paula Martínez Jáuregui Lorda is a Mexican documentary photographer committed to issues of a social and humanitarian nature worldwide.
Her work is committed to the defense of human rights, social change and environmental care. Focusing on issues of youth, feminism and the beauty of nature, María Paula has traveled documenting problems that deserve our attention.
She is part of the international organization Photographers Without Borders, with whom she has carried out projects around the world documenting the humanitarian work of different NGOs in India, Malawi, Mongolia, Ukraine, Armenia and Brazil.
In January she did a project with Harvard University at the Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, the largest refugee camp in the world.
She is the first Mexican woman to be certified as a drone pilot by the DGAC (General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics) and has explored the world from an aerial perspective.
Her love for her volcanoes has led her to do a personal project that she started four years ago documenting the majesty of the Mexican mountains and the speed of melting of the few glaciers that remain in Mexico due to global warming.
Likewise, she has carried out various marine conservation projects in the Mexican seas.
In 2020, she carried out a project that consisted of documenting from May to October how the Covid-19 pandemic was faced in different hospitals in Mexico City.