Nelson Morales

Last updated: October 2025

Nelson Morales is a photographer whose work focuses on issues of gender, body, identity, and sexual diversity. His work has been included in various collective and individual exhibitions in countries such as: Germany, Netherlands, Spain, El Salvador, Canada, Greece, Portugal, Malaysia, India, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Poland, Cuba, United States, and Mexico. In 2021, he won the PATROCINIOS scholarship award from the Jumex Foundation. Morales’ work has been published in Aperture, The New York Times, Vogue Italia, Vogue México, Vice, Mexicanísimo, TETU, Loeil de la photograpie, The British Journal of Photography, Musée Magazine, and Der Greif and he has published two books: Musas Muxe (2018) and Fantastic Woman (2019). He was recently one of the protagonists of the documentary MUXES, produced by HBO in 2022.