Maya Goded

Her 2016 release film about ageing Mexican prostitutes, Plaza de la Soledad (Loneliness Square), won the Impulso Morelia Prize at the 2015 Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia, in Mexico. The film has been described as “a sumptuous visual celebration and a refreshingly honest exploration of physical and emotional self-determination against difficult odds.”

Goded has published several books and has been the co-author of others as well. She has won several international awards. In 2009 she was involved in the making of a video and a short film, called Una Reina a su Gusto. After this she concentrated on the making of documentary films.

She did her first project in 1994, called Tierra Negra (Black Earth). She worked for three years on this project which consists of a collection images of Afro-Mexicans.

Maya Goded Colichio (born 1967, Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican photographer and documentary film maker. Since 2002 she has been allied with Magnum Photos and has developed a special focus on images of people from hidden or shunned communities. In 2019 Vogue Magazine identified her as one of the “8 Mexican female photographers who are breaking through on a global level.”

Goded was born in 1967 in Mexico City. In 1993 she worked as an assistant to Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide.