is a journalist and cultural critic connecting social justice, art, culture and place.
With experience in investigative reporting and art criticism, she’s particularly interested in how culture and design reflect politics and social movements and vice versa. Previous stories include reporting on irregular immigration through Mexico for Teen Vogue and The Nation; critiquing the Honduran goverment’s construction of the immigrant myth for Hyperallergic; questioning ‘popular design’ in Mexico for Frame and reporting on Australian tourism for the Washington Post and public architecture for Bloomberg CityLab.
She has also previously collaborated with SPACE10 by IKEA, MPavilion, Open House Melbourne, Savvy Studio and Design Hotels.
She is currently a member of Colectivo La Entraña, a Mexico City-based collective dedicated to exploring connections between gender, territory and collective action through art and workshops at the Museo Universitario El Chopo; and also participates in Diablitxs del Fuego, a community ceramics collective exploring territory through ceramics and art.
Originally from Australia with heritage from Hong Kong, she is currently based in Mexico City, where she has lived on-and-off since 2010. She holds an MA in Journalism from Columbia University, where she specialised in art criticism and architecture. Her master’s thesis explored place branding in Mexico City, while her research on modernist Uruguayan architect Mauricio Cravotto was included in (Radical) Functionalism in Latin America (2019).
She is available to work in English and Spanish.
With experience in investigative reporting and art criticism, she’s particularly interested in how culture and design reflect politics and social movements and vice versa. Previous stories include reporting on irregular immigration through Mexico for Teen Vogue and The Nation; critiquing the Honduran goverment’s construction of the immigrant myth for Hyperallergic; questioning ‘popular design’ in Mexico for Frame and reporting on Australian tourism for the Washington Post and public architecture for Bloomberg CityLab.
She has also previously collaborated with SPACE10 by IKEA, MPavilion, Open House Melbourne, Savvy Studio and Design Hotels.
She is currently a member of Colectivo La Entraña, a Mexico City-based collective dedicated to exploring connections between gender, territory and collective action through art and workshops at the Museo Universitario El Chopo; and also participates in Diablitxs del Fuego, a community ceramics collective exploring territory through ceramics and art.
Originally from Australia with heritage from Hong Kong, she is currently based in Mexico City, where she has lived on-and-off since 2010. She holds an MA in Journalism from Columbia University, where she specialised in art criticism and architecture. Her master’s thesis explored place branding in Mexico City, while her research on modernist Uruguayan architect Mauricio Cravotto was included in (Radical) Functionalism in Latin America (2019).
She is available to work in English and Spanish.
Please see her portfolio here.
She is available for photographic commissions in digital and film to accompany her editorial work.
For commissions, projects or collaborations please get in touch:
Instagram: @annettella
heythere.annette [at] gmail [dot] com
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