Bio
Current Location: Spain.
Maysun is an award winning independent visual journalist based in Spain and mainly focused in documentary photography and investigative storytelling. The interest of learning and her desire to help people made her realise the necessity of documenting her surroundings from a young age.
She holds a Degree in Photography, a Postgraduate Diploma in Photojournalism, another Postgraduate Diploma Specialisation in Management, Preservation and Dissemination of Photographic Archives, both from Universidad Autónoma of Barcelona (UAB), and a Master's Degree in Cinematography by ECAM Film School of Madrid, A certified professional UAS pilot and operator, Maysun has been devoted to professional journalism since 2004. For more than 20 years, she has covered conflict, political and social crises, and environmental issues across Europe (particularly the Balkans), Southeast Asia, North and East Africa, Central America, and especially the Middle East.
Maysun has worked with major NGOs and renown institutions including Greenpeace, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Intermón-Oxfam and Oxfam Internacional, the Red Cross, Amnesty International, the European Comission (EU), AECID, the Cervantes Institute, Reporters Without Borders, The Lancet, Lucie Foundation or the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for New Ibero-American Journalism – where she has been a jury member for the Gabo Prize twice – and national/international News Agencies such as EPA, AFP, CORBIS, DPA or ACN. Her work has been published in leading media outlets including Time Magazine, The New York Times, Lens Blog by NYT, National Geographic, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Stern, Focus magazine, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, ABC News, NBC News, Al Jazeera, Die Welt, El País, El Mundo, CNN, Ojo de Pez Magazine, among many others.
She collaborates with renowned universities such as University of Oxford, Columbia University, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de Zaragoza, Universidad Ciudad de Alicante, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, among others. She is a member of the International Federation of Journalists (IJF), a RISC Training Alumni and a TEDx Speaker fellow.
Alongside her documentary work, Maysun is active in public speaking, teaching, editing and coaching/mentoring. She is a painter and artistic creator. She has also taken part as a Cinematographer / DOP of “Llueven Vacas" (2017),a several award winning film by director Fran Arráez and screenwriter and author of the work Carlos B., together with consecrated actors as Eduardo Noriega, Maribel Verdú, María Barranco, Laia Marull, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Asier Etxeandía, Secun de la Rosa or Victor Clavijo, among others. Additionally, she has starred, alongside with other colleagues, in "Dying to tell", by Hernán Zin, which is currently broadcast in more than 130 countries through NETFLIX. in a chapter dedicated to her professional career within the documentary series "Detrás del Instante" (2021), by RTVE, or in the documentary "Kautela, the photographer" (2022), by Patricia Roda Amador. In that vein, Maysun has worked in the camera department on the famous Spanish series, “Cuéntame cómo pasó” ” and "HIT", both produced by RTVE.
"I'm committed to my job as I consider it a way to be engaged and consistent with my convictions and my ethics. Journalism is a way to be engaged with our world."
"I insist."