Ruth Baza

Ruth Baza (Madrid, 29 February 1972) is a Spanish author, photographer and visual artist associated with Generation X. She began her career at seventeen as an independent correspondent in New York, combining literature, interviews, and photography focused on major figures of rock, punk, and contemporary music and art. Although often published in the press, she has never identified as a journalist; her work has always belonged to the realm of authorship, narrative, and portraiture.

Her practice is shaped by a distinctive vintage, recycled, and human-centered aesthetic, rooted in her lifelong interest in material culture, textiles, and objects with history. This sensibility informs both her books and Ruth Baza Archive, founded in 2016, which preserves her diaries, correspondence, analog photography, rare negatives, textile collections, and artistic process materials. Her work has been quoted and referenced by several authors, academics, and artists.

She is the author of La Vida Intermitente, La Primera Vez, Laponia, IN2Japan, and La Dolce Vita de Alessandro Lecquio, and has contributed to numerous anthologies.

Baza has written hundreds of articles, interviews, and opinion pieces for national and international media such as GQ, Cosmopolitan, Woman, Interviú, Cambio 16, El Mundo, El Gran Musical, El Semanal, Cinemanía, Vanidad, Zero, and Radio 4 (RNE).

She is known for her “tailor-made interviews” and humanist photoshhots with personalities including Anjelica Huston, Lech Wałęsa, Hundertwasser, Paul McCartney, Iggy Pop, Yoko Ono, Kurt Cobain, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Adam Ant, Billy Idol, Lindsay Kemp, Björk, Blur, and Duran Duran, among many others.

La Vida Intermitente was adapted for the stage by Portuguese actor and director Pedro Penim (Teatro Praga), and was nearly brought to film by Peter Fonda.

Her poetry collections include Laponia (2000), Piedra, Papel y Tijeras (2001), and Tendencias Suicidas (2002). She has contributed to numerous collaborative works, including After Hours (1999), Apología de la marihuana (2002), POPULAR 1 (2023), and KOKOTXAS (2024).

In march 2026 she donated her previously unpublished portraits of Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an exceptional set of images documenting the artist of a hole unseen series.

Her photography has been exhibited internationally, including From Her to Eternity: The Women Who Photograph Music (Chicago, 2023), La Femme de Deuil (MA-EC Gallery, Milan), and Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid (2023).