Itxaso Zuñiga was born in (Terrassa) Barcelona, Spain in 1978. After graduating from the EFFC School of Photography (Escola de Fotografia of the UPC) in 1999, she studied photography at the Westminster University of London where she completed her final university project.

In 2000, she moved to Bahamas where she worked for the US film production companies Two Ocean and Talbot Productions as a photographer and crew member for the documentary series Sail Away and the film Ocean Men, respectively.

In 2001, she joined the public affairs department of the French NGO Horizons Pour Tous to work as a photographer and crew member of the organization's eight-month sailing tour, which took her from La Rochelle, France to the French Polynesian Island of Tahiti.

Between September 2002 to June 2005, she lived in (Terrassa) Barcelona where she worked as a free-lance photographer for Spanish travelling and sailing magazines as well as a managerial technician and instructor of photographic subjects at the Laboratory of Photography of the Design and Photographic Department at the University of Barcelona. During this time, she continued producing photographic reports on South East Asia and North Sahariana Africa.

Recently, she moved to Tokyo, Japan where she continues to work as a free-lance photographer for magazines and press agencies.