Joelle Soraya Batista Iseli is an International Award-Winning Photographer. She has been awarded 4 Honorable Mentions and 2 Official Selections in the prestigious International Photography Awards in New York within four consecutive years — 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. Her passion for photography has always been about Cultural Identity which aims to promote cultural education and remove the prejudices that individuals have against one another based on race, religion, background, etc and portray the beauty of humanity. Her work has been exhibited multiple times in Tribeca, Manhattan, NYC as well as in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Chiang Mai, Thailand; and Basel, Switzerland. Self-taught for over a decade with only one camera and one lens. She has traveled the world and lived in fourteen countries. Her international background has enabled her to connect deeply with a wide range of cultures and their heritage. Her driving force is the clear goal to one day have her body of work exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET) in New York and to participate in Art Basel in the near future.
