Spanish photographer Greta Alfaro is first Genesis Scholar at the Royal College of Art

Greta Alfaro is the first beneficiary of the new Genesis Foundation Scholarship programme at the Royal College of Art.  A postgraduate photography student from Valencia, Spain, she has been offered a place on the two-year M.A. programme and will receive £10,000 per year from the Genesis Foundation.  Her work deals with the importance and significance of images in contemporary Western society.

Greta Alfaro was selected from the shortlisted candidates in September 2009 by a panel of judges chaired by Runa Islam - a 2008 Turner Prize nominee - who holds a degree in Photography and an MPhil from the Royal College of Art. The image-maker Chris Levine represented the Genesis Foundation.  The plan is for the next scholarship to be awarded to a student in a different artistic discipline.  For further details, please see the press release.

To access the Royal College of Art website and to read more about this scholarship, please click here.

To view Greta's blog, click here.

A video of her work, In Ictu Oculi can be viewed in the media section of our site.

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