Rosa Taboada works between photography and cinema.

Philosophy is her background. Her early fieldwork in anthropology laid the ground for a documentary practice — films and field notebooks — that she keeps to this day.

In July 1999 she arrived in Paris, at the Colegio de España, on a residency to learn the language. She spent it in museums and galleries, photographing — and discovered the Nouvelle Vague in images, before she could follow the words.

She went on to study with the photography masters Isabel Muñoz, Ralph Gibson and Paolo Roversi, and with the director Víctor Erice. Selected for film residencies and named an emerging talent at the San Sebastián Film Festival, in 2021 she founded Martela Films, an independent production company where she writes and directs in her own voice.