Contact: ria.torrente@gmail.com
Ria Kristina Torrente is a freelance photographer and writer based in Rizal, Philippines. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Communication Arts from Miriam College and has participated in visual journalism workshops with VII Academy.
With a focus on documentary photography, her current work centers on women and other human stories. Among them is a long-term series about women and children living with HIV from underserved communities. Through her lens, she hopes to bring more attention to this vulnerable group who are often left out of conversations around care and recovery.
Alongside her documentary projects, her personal expressions explore themes of solitude, memory, identity, and existence. She turns to photography as a way of making sense of the world, capturing its contradictions, tracing the passage of time, and returning to each moment where understanding slowly unravels.
Workshops, Grants, Recognitions & Exhibitions
2025 - VII Academy Visual Journalism Program, Level 2
2023 - A Year in Pictures 2023, Medicins Sans Frontieres
2021 - Participant, Foundry Photojournalism Workshop
2021 - Grantee, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism and Photojournalists' Center of the Philippines Fellowship Program
2020 - VII Academy, Photojournalism & Documentary Photography: A 12-week Seminar with Christopher Morris for South and Southeast Asian Participants
2020 - The Great Lockdown Exhibition, Bin Matar House, Bahrain
2020 - Safer Spaces Virtual Art Exhibition, The Art Space Bahrain
2020 - Fact Bahrain, Arts & Culture - Slice of (This) Life
2018 - Invisible Photographer Asia