Alejandra Carles-Tolra

Artist, Educator, Facilitator
     
Location: London, UK
Nationality: Spanish
Biography: Alejandra Carles-Tolra is a visual artist, educator and participatory photography facilitator from Barcelona based in London. Questions regarding what defines our identities and the role the group plays in our search for belonging drives her... MORE
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Jul 21, 2016

The Guts and the Glory of Being on an All-Female Sports Team



Brown University is one of the few colleges that recognize women's rugby as a fully-fledged varsity sport. In "The Bears" photographer Alejandra Carles-Tolra captures the agony and ecstasy of being on an elite college athlete.

Carles-Tolra is on the phone from New York. Until recently, the Spanish photographer was based in New England on North America's east coast. She has now moved to London. But let's rewind a bit: This story starts with a theater-obsessed kid in Barcelona who, fascinated by performance and identity, decides to study it formally at university through sociology.

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