Kathya Maria Landeros is a Mexican-American photographer and educator. Her work looks at Latine communities, history, migration, representation and belonging. She grew up in the Central Valley of California. She teaches at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and Fulbright. She has also been an artist in residence at the Center for Photography at Woodstock and other centers.
Her book Verdant Land (Dust Collective, 2025) comes from work made between 2011 and 2024 in agricultural communities in the American West. It brings together portraits, landscapes and family photographs. It reflects a century of movement between Mexico and the United States. The hardcover has 100 pages and was printed in an edition of 350 copies.
