Grants
Rubén's work has been supported by prestigious grants that underscore contributions to visual storytelling:
- 2020: COVID-19 Emergency Grant for Journalists (National Geographic Society)
- 2020: The Photo Society / Sony Grant (Storytelling)
- 2019: National Geographic Explorer’s Grant (Storytelling)
Selected Awards
- 2023: Winner – Art / Act Award (David Brower Center)
- 2023: Honorable Mention – Felix Schoeller Photography Award
- 2022: Winner 1st Place – Rencontres Photos des Amis (Musée Albert-Kahn)
- 2021: Winner 1st Place – European Magazine Award (Photography Category with Chrismon Magazine)
- 2021: Shortlist – Photo Marseille (Prix Maison Blanche)
- 2021: Shortlist – World Water Photo Contest (Theme Category)
- 2021: Shortlist – Cortona on the Move New Visions (‘We are Humans’)
- 2020: Finalist – Arnold Newman Prize (New Directions in Photographic Portraiture)
- 2019: Winner 3rd Place – POY Latam (Portraits Category)
- 2019: Nominee – Prix Pictet (Hope)
- 2018: Winner 1st Place – Royal Geographical Society London (Earth Photo Awards)
- 2016: Winner 3rd Place – Sony World Photography Award (Portraits Category)
- 2015: Winner 1st Place – Sony World Photography Award (Portraits Category)
- 2015: Winner 1st Place – FCCT-Lightrocket Asia-Pacific Photojournalism Award (Environment Category)
- 2015: Winner 3rd Place – POY Latam (Portraits Category)
(Full award archive here)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2025 South by Southwest, German Haus (Austin, Texas, USA)
- 2024: Xposure (Sharjah, UAE)
- 2023: Climate Week (Javits Center, NYC, USA)
- 2023: Brower Center (Berkeley, California, USA)
- 2022: Casa Seat (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2019: Royal Geographic Society (Cumbria, UK – Earth Photo)
- 2018: Casa de la Cultura Arrecife (Lanzarote, Spain)
- 2018: Instituto Cervantes (Tokyo, Japan)
- 2016: Sony Gallery (Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka, Japan)
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2025 Sarajevo Photography Festival (Sarajevo, Bosnia)
- 2023: Photoclimat Festival (Paris, France)
- 2022: Festival du Regard (Cergy, France – Bonjour La Nuit!)
- 2021: Galerie Huit Arles (France – British Journal of Photography Open Walls)
- 2020: Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester, MA, USA – Arnold Newman Prize Awards)
- 2018: PhotoVille (New York City, USA – Blue Earth Society)
- 2016: Rencontres d’Arles Festival (France – Manuel Rivera Ortiz Foundation)
- 2016: Willy-Brandt Haus (Berlin, Germany)
- 2015: Mt. Rokko International Photo Festival (Kobe, Japan)
(Full exhibition archive here)