Alexandra McNichols-Torroledo is a Colombian-American photographer living in Indiana. Her artwork has centered on immigration issues in America and the fight of Indigenous communities in North and South America to protect sacred plants, water, and the rainforest from climate change. Alexandra’s practice bridges the fields of artistic and documentary photography, using a range of alternatives and processes to produce handmade photographs that appear to be antiques or sculptures. This approach achieves an aesthetic result that transports the spectator to the past within the reality of the present. She uses antique photographic processes and digital techniques to print on trees, stones, hand-made paper from coca leaf fiber, and recycled paper and canvas. She has published two photo poetry books and four photobooks: Encounters, Dream and Nightmares, Stone Faces, and Diaries of Death. Her articles and photos have been published in El Espectador (Colombia), The Guardian (UK), Semana Sostenible (Colombia), Trib-Star (Indiana), and Bloom Magazine (Indiana). McNichols-Torroledo’s work has been exhibited and lectured about in museums and galleries in America, Colombia, Brazil, and England, including El Museo Cultural Santa Fe, Palacio Das Artes, FAR Center for Contemporary Arts, Swope Art Museum, Museo La Tertulia, the Pereira Museum of Art, Guichellar Gallery at Big Car/Tube Factory Art Space, La Cometa Gallery, and Art Pavillion. Last year, she exhibited at Aurora PhotoCenter and lectured on her work at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields.