© Mónica R. Goya
September 2021
You can now read an excerpt of my book, Urban Farmers, featuring East New York Farms! and their crucial food justice work in Yes magazine.
To read more about the book, photographed by Valery Rizzo, written by yours truly and published by Gestalten, see here.
The book is currently available in English and German, and will be soon available in French.
July 2021
New work for Modern Farmer, featuring Flaura, the project of Laura López Terrón, an edible flower farmer who works on Tenerife, Canary Islands. Laura, the founder and owner, discusses her transition from office jobs to working the land, plus the difficulties of starting from scratch in a new place. Read full story here.
June 2021
It’s been a treat to work on this story (writing & photography) featuring some of Asturias’s most brilliant young cheesemakers. I was lucky to get that sunshine in winter, when I photographed the story. The work appears in the Travel Issue (summer 2021) of US magazine Culture Cheese.
June 2021
New writing work (in Spanish) for Gourmets, featuring brilliant London chefs, veterans and newcomers. The story is included in the June issue, out now.
May 2021
New writing work (in Spanish) for Gourmets, an interview with renowned Mexican chef Enrique Olvera. Photography by the brilliant Araceli Paz.
April 2021
It is with great joy that I share these news: Urban Farmers, the book in which photographer and co-editor Valery Rizzo, the Gestalten team and yours truly have been working on for months will be out in Europe soon (April 29th)!
Divided in case studies, profiles, features and “activities at home” , the book, which also includes four guest essays, offers a global overview of urban agriculture across the world. From a scholar that quit academia to fight to save Mexico City’s chinampas to a passionate activist tackling food insecurity by teaching urban farming skills in Nairobi; Urban Farmers is an invitation to roll up the sleeves, start digging and ultimately grow not only vegetables but strong communities.
Writing this book has been a journey and I feel truly grateful for everything that I have learnt along the process. With special thanks to those busy farmers, activists, food justice advocates and all the others who made time for our interviews, the book couldn’t have happened without them. It does take a village!
For the last two decades Gabriela Fernández Orantes has been working hard to raise awareness of Mexican native corn varieties and their different flavours, protecting biodiversity and those who work the land in the process. You can read the full story -with photos- in Spanish in El País.
April 2021
New work on London’s School Streets and how the initiative is reducing toxic air pollution. Work for Spain’s national newspaper El Diario and environmental magazine Ballena Blanca. See link here.
March 2021
New work on London’s Greenground Map. Read full story (in Spanish) here.
March 2021
New writing work (in Spanish) for Gourmets, an interview with renowned London chef Skye Gyngell of Spring restaurant and biodynamic farmer Jane Scotter of Fern Verrow farm. The interview focuses on how they are joining forces to reduce food waste, both on the farm and at the restaurant.
March 2021
New work profiling Coventry as City of Culture 2021. Read full story (in Spanish) here.
February 2021
Five walks to enjoy the beauty of the Asturian outdoors in winter. The story appeared in the digital front page. Read full story (in Spanish) here.
February 2021
A feature about the self-proclaimed first zero waste restaurant in London. Read full story (in Spanish) here.
January 2021
The almond trees, one of the crops that dominated the rural landscapes of some Canarian islands before tourism took over, put on a show at this time of the year. Read full story (in Spanish) here.
December 2020
Photography of London’s bookshop Books for Cooks and portrait of his owner, Éric Treuille.
The work is published in SZ magazin, and available online.
December 2020
New article about the documentary “La Calle del Agua”, in which director Celia Viada tells the story of forgotten pioneer photographer Benjamina Miyar (1881 - 1961). Born in a rural small village in Asturias, northern Spain, Miyar was an independent woman who learnt the trade of her family, clockmaking, and run the clockmaker’s workshop when her dad passed away. She was a creative self-taught photographer who didn’t fit in the submissive role the fascist dictatorship had imposed on Spanish women. She was openly left leaning and was tortured and arrested at least four times.
The work is published in El Salto Diario, and available online.
December 2020
Lovely to see some of my images of the Canary islands in High Life (British Airways) magazine.
The work appears in the December issue, out now.
November 2020
Earlier this year I had the chance to spend over two months back home in Asturias. It was a unique opportunity to rediscover my homeland with time on my hands.
A photo essay has now been published in The New York Times. Read full story here.
October 2020
New work for Binter magazine, cover story featuring some of the must-visit destinations in western Asturias.
The work appears in the Binter October issue, out now.
October 2020
Lovely to see one of my images of the artisan cheesemakers of Asturias in Courier magazine.
The work appears in the Courier October/November issue, out now.
