Elena del Rivero Fernández is a creative photographer from Asturias who has built her career in Madrid and Helsinki (Finland), and who has recently returned to Asturias to open her own photography studio. She obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona in 2009, specialising in Photography and Drawing, and completed her final year in Frosinone (Italy) on an Erasmus grant. She later completed a Master’s degree in Concept and Creation at EFTI, Madrid, where she took part in the PhotoEspaña 2010 exhibition, amongst others. For several years, she was an associate lecturer at the University of Valladolid on the Segovia and Soria campuses, teaching art and creativity to teacher training students. She also completed a Master’s degree in Art Therapy and Art Education for Social Inclusion at the Complutense University of Madrid, the Autonomous University of Madrid and the University of Valladolid.

For the past four years, she has been living in Helsinki, Finland, where she worked as an art director, photographer and retoucher at a photography studio specialising in fashion and product photography. She has recently published a photographic series in the latest issue of La Madeja magazine, published by Cambalache.

At the end of 2025, she returned to Gijón, where she is part of the Gijón Impulsa Coworking programme, developing her business plan to open a studio specialising in photo novels, advertising photography and corporate portraiture.