Catalogues & Features

Reference Books & Publications

  • Defiant Women: 50 Artists and Their Activism. By Catherine McCormack. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2027
  • The Women Who Changed Photography: And How to Master Their Techniques. By Gemma Padley. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2024.
  • Photography Now: Fifty Pioneers Defining Photography for the Twenty First Century. By Charlotte Jansen. Octopus Books, 2021.
  • Photography: A Feminist History. By Emma Lewis. London: Octopus Publishing Group, 2021.
  • When Fact Is Fiction: Documentary Art in the Post-Truth Era. Edited by Hilde Van Gelder and Stef Vanthuyne. Leuven University Press, 2020.
  • Documentary Photography Reconsidered: History, Theory and Practice. By Michelle Bogre. Routledge, 2019.
  • Body: The Photography Book. By Nathalie Herschdorfer. Thames & Hudson, 2019.
  • Photographers on Photography: How the Masters See, Think, and Shoot. By Henry Carroll. Laurence King Publishing, 2018.
  • How We See: Photobooks by Women. Edited by Russet Lederman, Olga Yatskevich, and Michael Lang. 10×10 Photobooks, 2018.
  • Understanding Photobooks: The Form and Content of the Photographic Book. By Jörg Colberg. Routledge, 2017.
  • Up to Now. Edited by Fabrica. Treviso: Fabrica, 2017. 
  • La furia de las imágenes: Notas sobre la postfotografía. By Joan Fontcuberta. Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2016.
  • Nuevos Relatos Fotográficos: A New Generation of Photographers. La Fábrica, 2016.
  • Human. Prix Pictet. London: teNeues / Prix Pictet, 2014.
  • Diccionario de Fotógrafos Españoles. Madrid: La Fábrica, 2014.

Exhibition Catalogues

  • Rodoreda, un bosc. CCCB, 2025.
  • Una ciudad desconocida bajo la niebla. Nuevas imágenes de la Barcelona de los barrios. MACBA, 2024.
  • Corps à corps: Histoire(s) de la photographie. Edited by Julie Jones. Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2023.
  • Sade. La llibertat o el mal. CCCB, 2023.
  • The Book of Images: An Illustrated Dictionary of Visual Experiences from A to Z. Images Vevey / Koenig Books, 2020.
  • image/con/text: Dokumentarische Praktiken zwischen Journalismus, Kunst und Aktivismus. Edited by Karen Fromm, Sophia Greiff, Malte Radtki, and Anna Stemmler. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2020.
  • Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency. MoCP, 2021.
  • Dear Truth: Documentary Strategies in Contemporary Photography. Hasselblad Foundation, 2021.
  • Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019. The Photographers’ Gallery, 2019.
  • The Nominees’ Book. Lausanne: Prix Elysée, Musée de l’Elysée, 2019.
  • Fenómeno Fotolibro. Editorial RM, 2017.
  • Arles 2016: Les Rencontres de la Photographie. Actes Sud / Les Rencontres d’Arles, 2016.
  • Mapping the Body: The Body in Contemporary Life. Edited by Julia Brennacher, Lena Nievers, and Jürgen Tabor. Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2016.
  • The Post-photographic Condition. Edited by Joan Fontcuberta. Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal / Kerber Verlag, 2015.
  • When We Share More Than Ever. Edited by Esther Ruelfs and Teresa Gruber. Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, 2015.
  • Under 35. Ivorypress, 2015.
  • From Here On. Edited by Joan Fontcuberta, Clément Chéroux, Erik Kessels, Martin Parr, and Joachim Schmid. RM, 2013.

Selected Magazines

  • Foam Magazine, no. 67, The Test of Time. 2025.
  • Frieze, The Artists Confronting Sexual Violence by Emily Steer, 2025.
  • Foam Magazine, no. 58, Talent. 2021
  • 1000 Words Annual. 1000 Words, 2018.
  • Aperture, no. 225, On Feminism. Winter 2016.

Collaborations

  • La hora violeta. By Montserrat Roig. Cover image by Laia Abril. Bilbao: Consonni, 2025.
  • As estruturas elementares da violência. By Rita Segato. Cover image by Laia Abril. Bazar do Tempo, 2025.
  • Barcelona fotògrafes / Fotógrafas de Barcelona. By Isabel Segura. Prologue by Laia Abril. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona / La Fábrica, 2024
  • (After)care: Trauma. Vulnerability. Accountability. Guest curator and editor: Laia Abril. The Eyes, no. 13. The Eyes Publishing, 2023.
  • The Backway. By Ruido Photo. Edited by Laia Abril. Editorial RM, 2022.
  • The Heavens: Annual Report. Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti. Edited by Laia Abril. Text by Nicholas Shaxson. Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2015.
  • Pop Pills. By Baptiste Lignel. Afterword by Laia Abril. Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2015
  • Miserachs Barcelona. Creative direction and editing Laia Abril and Ramon Pez. Editorial RM and MACBA, 2015.
  • The Afronauts. By Cristina de Middel. Concept, design and editing by Cristina de Middel, Laia Abril, and Ramon Pez. Sala Kursala.