Iveta Gabaliņa is a practicing photographer, curator, and photography teacher, as well as the director and co-founder of ISSP Gallery. She studied photography at Andrejs Grants’ studio and at Arts University Bournemouth, and holds a master’s degree in Photography from Aalto University in Helsinki. She has received numerous international awards, including C/O Berlin Talents 2013, the Burn Magazine Award, and the CDS Documentary Photography Award, as well as nominations for major competitions such as the Sony World Photography Awards and the Leica Oskar Barnack Award. Her work is included in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and Deutsche Börse Bank.