My work begins with wildlife, but it has never truly been about animals alone. Every journey into the wild has become a journey inward, where horses, polar bears, sled dogs, elephants, lions, and countless other species have quietly shaped the person I am becoming. They have taught me that belonging is not something we find, but something we remember; that connection begins with respect; that resilience is forged through adversity; and that life is inseparable from loss. In the wild, death is neither feared nor resisted—it is accepted as part of the same cycle that gives life its meaning. Watching animals has taught me that nature does not cling to what cannot be held. It simply continues. Through years spent in some of the planet's most remote places, I have come to see wildlife not as subjects to photograph, but as teachers. My photographs are an invitation to look beyond the animal itself and recognize something of ourselves reflected back—a reminder that we are not separate from the natural world, but deeply and inseparably part of it.
Behind the glass
I think inside of us all, there is some kind of wish to escape — to a whole different life.
For me, that’s to the Wild.
The more I see, the more I believe we are the ones behind the glass — watching, safe, distant, mistaking comfort for freedom. Out here, where the wind has no walls and silence carries its own kind of truth, that illusion starts to break.
Echoes of the Pack is a photographic and narrative work documenting the lives of Arctic sled dogs living in prolonged isolation, tethered to the sea ice on the edges of Inuit communities. Created over three years in Pond Inlet, Iqaluit, and Qikiqtarjuaq (Qik), the book focuses on the dogs stationed farthest from town—the chain dogs set out alone on the ice to camp and watch for bears. These individuals, largely unseen and rarely photographed, became the quiet center of the work.
What began as an unintended encounter became a profoundly personal project. Drawn again and again to the margins, the artist found herself shaped by these dogs as much as she documented them. The book weaves stark black-and-white photographs, select color images, and short poetic texts written from both the artist’s perspective and imagined points of view of the dogs themselves—voices that reflect endurance, waiting, labor, and presence.
Human presence is absent from the frame, felt only through systems of work and survival. Set against a rapidly changing Arctic, Echoes of the Pack resists explanation and resolution. It listens, observes, and asks what responsibility looks like when the project chooses you and leaves more questions than certainty.
Release Fall 2026
Ten Feet of Ice
ᖁᓕᐊᓂ ᐃᒡᓗᐅᑉ ᑐᓐᓂᖅ
Ten feet. That’s the length of our world.
Ten feet of ice, of hunger, of waiting.
We share this space because we must.
The chain hums when the wind moves, and sometimes our bodies do too — pressed close for warmth, or pushed apart by the same hunger that keeps us alive.
You can tell which of us leads.
The one with the scars, the dried blood at the mouth, the one who fights not because he wants to, but because there is no other language left.
We do not hate each other.
We endure each other.
There is no choice between love and survival — here, they are the same thing.
When you came near, our bodies stiffened. Hope rose like heat — a chance for food, for touch, for anything that breaks the silence.
We wanted to be seen, but not hurt.
We wanted to trust, but could not afford it.
That is the hardest part of being alive: to long for the hand that might feed, and fear the same hand in the same breath.
HORSES OF ICELAND
In the Land of Fire & Ice
BELONGING
The Icelandic horse first revealed to me what belonging truly means. They never questioned their place within the landscape—they simply lived as though they and the earth had always belonged to one another. In their quiet presence, I began to question my own place in the world. What started as a search for photographs became a search for something far more enduring: the feeling of coming home to myself.
CONNECTION
The wild has taught me that every meaningful connection begins with understanding. Not by imposing ourselves upon another life, but by quietly learning its language, its rhythms, and its place in the world. Only then does the illusion of separation begin to fade. And when we no longer see wildlife as "other," protecting it becomes an act of caring for something that has always belonged to us.
RESILIENCE
The polar bear taught me that resilience has no interest in yesterday. No matter how uncertain the ice, how long the hunger, or how distant the horizon, it keeps moving toward possibility. It does not carry resentment for what has been lost, nor does it pause to question what cannot be changed. It simply places one paw in front of the other. Somewhere in that quiet certainty, I found a different way of understanding resilience.
ACCEPTANCE
Watching wildlife has changed the way I understand loss. In nature, death is never separate from life; it is woven quietly into its rhythm. Animals do not ask why, nor do they linger in what cannot be changed. They continue with remarkable grace, fully present to what remains. They have taught me that acceptance is perhaps the deepest form of peace—a quiet trust in life's endless cycle of endings and beginnings.
IN THE LAND OF FIRE & ICE: SPECIAL EDITION
A true celebration of over a decade photographing the indigenous horses of Iceland in their natural habitat. Guadalupe’s first edition of Horses of Iceland is now sold out world wide, she has been working quietly on a second edition these past five years while focusing on her Africa book to not only do what she does best, get close-up portraits of the nature and beauty of the Icelandic Horses in their natural habitat; she decided to go under a bigger project and production showcasing the horses in some of the most iconic location that this beautiful Iceland has to offer, from the famous Skogafoss in the south, to the black beaches in Vik with backdrops of fierce oceans and basalt rocks and a real team effort showcasing the Horses of the Land of Fire & Ice on the glaciers and the backdrops of an active volcano.
Horses of Iceland (part II) is Guadalupe’s greates proud a true 10 year Aniversary revisiting the land of Fire & Ice falling in love with the horses over and over again.
This book will be released in Europe in December 2024 and in the USA & Canada in October 2025
Includes a Special note signed by the Artist
Limited Edition Print 11X9” included in the book are available in editions of 50 each, signed and numbered on a label for the back of the print. Printed on 315gsm Hahnemühle photo rag Baryta paper.