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Fabiola Ferrero (1991, Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan journalist and photographer.

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In 2021 she founded Semillero Migrante, a free educational program for young Venezuelan and Colombian Migrants

In 2022 she was awarded the Carmignac Prize of the VISA Festival in Perpignan, southern France, for her photographic series «Venezuela, The Wells Run Dry» about the disappearance of the middle class in the country during the Venezuelan crisis. For the exhibition, Fabiola led a group of five journalists who visited several areas of Venezuela, including some of the facilities of the oil and salt industries, ransacked universities, and the remains left behind by Venezuelans who have migrated due to the crisis. The series was presented alongside personal videos of Venezuelans who participated in the project.

In 2023, Fabiola was the winner of the category Long Term Projects for South America in the World Press Photo for her work «I can't hear the birds», where she documents the economic and political crisis in Venezuela which forced seven million locals to migrate, including herself.

Other recognitions she has received include the Inge Morath Award, the 6Mois prize for Photojournalism and the Getty Images Editorial Grant. In 2018 she was a Magnum Foundation Grantee for the Social Justice Program and she has been shortlisted for the Alexia Grant, Eugene Smith Memorial Fund and the Leica Oskar Barnack Prize for Newcomers.

Fabiola has developed independent research in Latin America and her work has been published by various international media such as Time, The New York Times, National Geographic, M Magazine, Le Monde and El Estímulo, among others. She is also a member of Ruda, a collective of Latin American photographers.