Zahara Gómez is a photographer and visual artist.

For over fifteen years, her practice has explored the relationship between photography, memory, political violence, and human rights. Through archival research, fieldwork, and collaborative processes, she questions conventional ways of representing violence and seeks to create narratives that center the lives, emotional bonds, and memories of those who have experienced it.

In 2017, she initiated Recetario para la Memoria (Recipes for Memory), a collaborative photographic project developed with families of disappeared persons, involving more than 220 women across different regions of Latin America.

Her work moves between photography, video, research, and education, approaching artistic creation as a means of fostering encounters, preserving memory, and opening spaces for collective action.

She is a National Geographic Explorer and recipient of the Bertha Artivism Award (2025) and the Annual Engaged Artivist Award on Atrocity Prevention and Human Rights (2023). Her work has been featured in international exhibitions and publications.