Nadège Mazars is a French photographer. She has been living in Colombia since 2007. Her work takes an intimate approach to exploring the effects of global issues related to migration, nature, and war and peace. With a holistic perspective, she aims to critically and comprehensively deconstruct existing social representations and narratives, advocating for change.
She produced the book Mama Coca, published by Raya Editorial in late July 2025. The corpus, which includes photo series, texts, and historical and documentary archives, results from a photographic investigation that aims to deconstruct prejudices about the coca plant, and the narrative developed from the countries of the global North, reducing it to an illicit product.
She works on two personal projects, based on life trajectories. They are related to the question of peace building, the roots of violence and the conditions of perpetuation of the internal war:
- Dreamers: Tales about Real Lives in El Salvador (2017 – ongoing) looks back at lives transformed by migration, violence and/or religion.
- The Other Colombia (2013 – ongoing) focuses on this Colombia that seeks peace and the difficulties of its realization.
For each of these two projects, she received a Magnum Foundation grant, as well as grants from the IWMF and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in Colombia, France, the United States, Poland, Spain, and the Netherlands. Alongside her personal work, Nadège works regularly for media outlets such as The Washington Post, Le Monde, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and Libération.
She participated in the first Masterclass by VII (2014–2015) and was a mentee in the Women Photograph mentoring program (2017–2018). Nadège holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Paris III (2013), focusing on the construction of territorial and political indigenous autonomy through the management of the Colombian healthcare system.