Constanza Portnoy (born 1980s) is an Argentine photographer and photojournalist who has won a number of international awards.
She was selected as Photographer of the Year 2017 by the Tokyo International Foto Awards,[1] was the 2018 laureate of the French-based International Women Photographers Association,[2][3] and in August 2018 was the winner of the Beca Oxfam FNPI award for journalism on gender inequality.
She found that by taking up photography, she was able to communicate their distress and fight for improvements.
[1] Her series of photographs titled Fuerza de la vida (Life Force) includes Jorge, a victim of thalidomide treatment, together with his wife, Vera, and a five-year-old daughter who both have physical impediments.
In the face of a cold, external climate insensitive to their disabilities, she discovered a more friendly internal atmosphere open to relationships empowering life.