Joana Toro  is a Colombian photographer and visual artist based between New York City and Bogotá. Working across documentary photography and visual arts, she explores migration, memory, and identity.  

She is the author of the books Hello I Am Kitty (Tragaluz, 2019) and Rosalina (Cuartoestudio, 2026), both acquired by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Her book Hello I Am Kitty was selected in the Best Book category at POY Latam in 2023.

Her projects has been presented in solo exhibitions including Hello I Am Kitty at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center in Miami; Hello I Am Kitty at OjoRojo Bogota Colombia.  TransLatinas at the Queens Museum exhibition by Photoville at Travers Park in New York; and Colombia on My Mind at Abbaye aux Dames in Caen, France, as part of the 75th anniversary of the Forum Mondial Normandie pour la Paix.

Her work has also been included in group exhibitions such as New York Now: Home, the Photography Triennial 2023 at the Museum of the City of New York; Les Femmes S’exposent in Houlgate, France, in 2019; other grupal exhibitions include Looking at the Edge, a 2023 at the Gabriel García Márquez Cultural Center , Bogotá, Colombia, among others.

Her series have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Open Society Foundations, among others. She has received the Pulitzer Center Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant and the National Geographic COVID-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists.