PREMIUM PHOTO

A physician who speaks in images

There are images that don’t ask permission — they simply arrive and break you open. I’m Alejandra, a physician from Colombia who picked up a camera in 2020 and has never quite put it down. My first real photograph was of a glass frog, deep in the Chocó rainforest, through a lens borrowed from my husband Federico Espinosa — the person who first taught me to truly see.

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Since then, I’ve chased light across continents. I’ve waited in silence for a coyote to cross a meadow in Yellowstone. I’ve stood in the Pantanal and wept openly at the sight of a jaguar moving through the reeds. I’ve photographed the auroras of Iceland, the towers of Patagonia, the savannahs of Kenya. Each place, each animal, each fraction of a second has asked the same thing of me: pay attention. I photograph wildlife and nature because I believe empathy can be learned through images. My hope is simple — that whoever sees my work feels what I felt standing there, and loves this world a little more because of it. Today, I’m proud to be a partner at Keepy Nature Tours, a travel and photography agency built around exactly this philosophy: that connecting with the natural world is not a luxury, it’s a necessity. My favorite subjects? Wolves, dogs, and every wild creature in between. For me, a photograph is not documentation — it is an act of love, and an invitation for others to feel the same.