Exhibitions

2025 - Coningsby Gallery, Future Perspectives, London, UK

2023 – Feria de Arte Contemporáneo, Artist 360, Madrid, Spain

2021 - Centro de Arte la Recova, EscaparArte, Tenerife, Spain

2018 - Golf Costa de Adeje, This is a Flower, Tenerife, Spain

2017 – Ayuntamiento de Adeje, VI Colectiva de Arte-Mujeres Adeje Creativa,  Adeje, Spain

2016 -  Espacio Gallery, International Print Exhibition and Open International Book Exhibition curated by Royal Photographic Society, London, UK

2014 - Google Zeitgeist Talk, Cloud Appreciation Society, Arizona, USA

2011 - Ayuntamiento de Arucas, V Concurso De Fotografía-Miradas en el Camino, Gran Canarias, Spain

 

Awards

2025 – Associate of the Royal Photographic Society (ARPS)

2022 - Tokyo International Foto Awards - Nominee

2022 - Px3 Prix de la Photographie Paris – Honourable Mention

2021 - Fine Art Photography Awards - Nominee

2020 - Tokyo International Foto Awards Fine Art / Special Effects – Bronze Award

2019 - Tokyo International Foto Awards Fine Art / Special Effects – Honourable Mention

2019 - Moscow International Foto Awards Fine Art / Special effects – Bronze Award

2018 - Open Walls Arles – Editors Pick

2018 - Tokyo International Foto Awards People / Portrait – Bronze Award

2017 - PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris – Honourable Mention

2017 - Tokyo International Foto Awards Portfolio / Personal – Gold Award

2016 - RPS Review of the Year and International Print Exhibition 160 – Shortlisted

 

 

Publications

2018 – The Royal Photographic Society – Digital Imaging Group News , My Mother

2019 – The Royal Photographic Society – Digital Imaging Group News, This is a Flower

2020 – The Royal Photographic Society - International Members Project, Living in Parallels

Antoinette Castro was born in London, where she read  Pure Mathematics at RHBNC London University, later working in finance, even though her passion had always been to become a fine art painter and illustrator. However, it was not until her visit to one of Robert Mapplethorpe’s controversial exhibition, that her interest in photography was truly ignited and her passion grew. Obsessed with making pictures, she gave up her full-time work and embarked on her photographic studies, setting up a studio in Spain, allowing her to work on personal projects and as a freelance portrait photographer. She achieved her BA (Hons) Photography degree at The University of West London. She currently moves between Spain and the UK. Her work is often autobiographical, addressing personal and social issues, like her ongoing project, Madre, spanning over more than 7 years, when her mother was first diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. She is currently using her photography to explore, identity and memory, which she does by re-enacting her past in the making of her pictures, as a way of revisiting it and connecting with childhood feelings. She is also developing further her project, Beneath the Fragile, where she uses the body to examine and confront personal issues relating to the transience of lfe, ageing and the beauty found in the imperfections.