DAUGHTERS OF NO GOD by Nuria López Torres

Daughters of No God by photographer Nuria López Torres is a documentary project that addresses violence against women in Mexico: femicides, disappearances of women and girls, rapes, gender violence and trafficking of women for sexual exploitation.

More than ten women are murdered in Mexico every day. The Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System publishes a monthly report with data on violence against women in its various forms; however, according to civil society organizations working on gender-based violence, this data does not reflect reality. It is estimated that between 90 and 98 percent of crimes against women go unreported, and that of those reported, only between one and two percent are solved.

This project seeks to be a voice for women who have been trafficked; for the fathers and mothers who have suffered the disappearance of their daughters; for the victims of sexual exploitation; for the families who have seen their daughters murdered, and for the women who have suffered sexual and domestic violence.

The families of missing women and girls are left completely helpless in the face of police incompetence, negligence, and, in many cases, complicity with human trafficking networks. In most cases, families are forced to conduct their own investigations and then hand over the information to the assigned law enforcement officers. Their lives are shattered and brought to a standstill. This tragedy opens a wound within these families that can only heal the day their daughters are found.

Currently, trafficking in women and girls for sexual exploitation is the second most lucrative business in Mexico, second only to drug trafficking, according to a report by the National Human Rights Commission and the Center for Studies and Research in Development and Social Assistance. Mexico has the highest number of missing women in the Americas who end up in forced prostitution.

The author states that organizations like the Elisa Martínez Street Brigade for Women's Support fight against the trafficking of women for sexual exploitation, but they face significant difficulties in carrying out their work. These organizations denounce the lack of interest and support from the authorities: "Reporting these crimes has brought us problems, from the murder of our colleagues to imprisonment, beatings, and disappearances..." says Elvira, director of the NGO Street Brigade.

About the artist Nuria López Torres .

Nuria López Torres is a documentary photographer based in Barcelona. She trained at the Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia and the IDEP School of Image and Design in Barcelona, ​​where she earned a master's degree in photojournalism. Her work focuses on themes related to women, identities, and violence, with a particular emphasis in recent years on the social challenges facing developed societies. She approaches these topics from a social anthropological perspective, transforming some of her work into photographic essays. She combines her personal projects with freelance work for national and international publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, El País Semanal, El Magazine La Vanguardia, and XL Semanal, among others, and teaches at specialized photography centers.

His work has been exhibited in the Senate of Mexico, the Parliament of Austria, the Querétaro Art Museum in Mexico, the America Museum in Madrid, the North Fork Arts Center in New York, the Spanish Embassy in Cuba, the London Photo Festival, the Embassy of the Netherlands in Cuba, the F3 Freiraum für Fotografie Art Gallery in Berlin, Angar-7 in Austria, the Whitebox Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Michael Horbach Foundation in Germany, among other exhibition spaces around the world.

She has been awarded the Global Peace Photo Award 2023 by the Austrian Parliament; the Bartur Photo Award 2022, the POY Latam Award in 2025, POY Latam in 2021, the POY Latam Award 2019, the Moscow International Photo Awards, the Lens Culture Portrait Award, and the Photography Award of the II International Festival of Audiovisual Arts of Andalusia, which are in addition to numerous other awards and recognitions that the author has received.

Temporary Exhibition Hall of the Roman Theatre Museum of Cartagena
From January 30 to April 13, 2026
Roman Theatre Museum of Cartagena
Plaza del Ayuntamiento, 9
30201 Cartagena, Murcia (Spain)
Telephone: (+34) 968 504 802
www.teatroromanocartagena.org

Roman Theatre Foundation of Cartagena:
Cartagena City Council,
Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia,
Caja Murcia Foundation
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Iberdrola Foundation
, ICA Institute of Cultural Industries and Arts of the Region of Murcia