Ale Uzarraga is a photographer and multidisciplinary artist dedicated to exploring the intersection of art, emotional awareness, and social justice, transforming images into acts of connection and liberation. Rooted in her transborder identity, her practice emerges from a lifelong journey of healing, remembrance, and return to the body and land. By weaving in narrative therapy and art therapy methodologies, she creates visual stories that invite self-reflection, cultural appreciation, and community building.
Through photography and mixed media, Ale’s projects honor wisdom carriers and Indigenous practices that have guided her path back to self, advocating for the preservation of culture, land, and community, while nurturing trust and connection within the communities and the land she engages with. Her work approaches photography as a form of ceremony, where images are not products but offerings of dignity, reciprocity, respect, presence and gratitude.
Her photography and art have been featured in community spaces, galleries, and collaborations with organizations for over 10 years, committed to cultural preservation and ethical storytelling. Whether through landscape photography, intimate portraits, embroidered photographs, or large-scale installations, her work dissolves isolation, uplifts resilience, and envisions collective healing, reminding us that we are never separate from each other or the living earth.