Guide: Marga Gonzalez (AI)

Marga Gonzalez

In relation to the NGO Amnesty International, she has been actively collaborating with the organization for 34 years, being the 1163rd of more than 84,404 members at present.

From the beginning he had numerous responsibilities within the entity:

• Member of the Executive Committee of AI.
• Coordinator of AI Galicia.
• Treasurer of the A Coruña Group of AI.

He is currently coordinating Amnesty International’s Group in A Coruña and collaborating in educational activities at ‘Acampa’.

Alessandro Grassani

Alessandro Grassani

Alessandro Grassani is a documentary photographer who uses photography and video as main form of expression. From 2004 to 2006 he works in Israel and the Palestinian Territories: he is there during the funeral of Yasser Arafat, before and during the clearing outof the Israeli settlements in Gaza Strip and again after the Hamas’ election victory and the military operation in Gaza Strip from the Israelis called “Summer Rain”. He works intensively in Iran where he goes for the first time at the end of 2003, in order to document the effects of the Bam’s earthquake: he returns dozens of times to inquires the situation of the Hebrew Iranian Jews and works on a long term project about Iranian ethnic minorities.

He has worked on personal projects and assignments in more than 50 countries around the and he works among others with The New York Times, L’Espresso, El Pais Semanal, United Nations, International Organization for Migration, Doctors of the World and his work has been featured in magazine such as Time magazine, National Geographic, Sunday Times, M le magazine du Monde, Newsweek among others.

Today, his personal projects focus mainly on long terms documentary projects in which he explores the consequences of migration and their aftermath on society.

His work have brought him numerous awards including the Sony World Photography Awards, Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards, Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award and have been exhibited at festivals and galleries worldwide including the United Nations, Museum of Immigration of Paris, Visa pour L’Image in Perpignan, Royal Geographic Society in London and the International Center for Climate Governance.

He is a Sony Global Imaging Ambassador, a TEDx Brlin speaker and teacher at the John Kaverdash Academy of Milano and continuously engaged with other educational activities such as lectures and workshops.

Presented by Julia Lago

Sorry I drowend, a film by Médicos Sin Fronteras and Studio Kawakeb, directed by Hussein Nakhal & David Habchy.

Time: 6’ V/O: Arabic with Spanish subtitles

Presented by María Díaz (Médicos sin fronteras)

María Díaz

Degree in Political Science, Masters degree in Development cooperation by the University of Santiago de Compostela and a postgraduate course in Humanitarian Action by the The Catalonian Open University (UOC).

María Díaz assisted technically in a cooperation project with Central America project for the directorate-general of cooperation of the Galician Administration. Later on she was placed in a position of coordinator of General Technical Secretariat of the Galician coordinator of Non-governmental organizations dedicated to development. Currently she is the delegate of Doctors Without Borders in the north-western are of Spain (Asturias, Galicia and Castilla León).

Environmental Migrants: The Last Illusion.

A multi-chapter story featuring one of the main, and commonly ignored, consequences of climate change on human populations: Environmental migration from rural to urban areas.

In 2008, for the first time in history, there is more population density in cities than in rural areas. In 2050, the planet is expected to face a traumatic balance of between 250 million and 1 trillion environmental migrations, the future humanitarian emergency of the planet in the coming decades. Environmental migrants will not pursue new wealthy nations but will seek new economic resources in urban areas of their own nations, which will be overwhelmed and overwhelmed by increasing levels of poverty.

This project focuses on the situation in Mongolia, Bangladesh, Kenya and Haiti.

Presented by: Xosé Abad

Xosé Abad

www.estudioabad.com

(Figures – Girona)

He started his professional activity in 1979 as graphic correspondent for EFE agency, collaborating in different media. Several photography magazines and newspapers as National Geographic, Planeta Humano, El Semanal, El Pais, El Magazine and La Vanguardia has publish his works.

Abad is the promoter of web page “Photographers against war.

He has created and directed “Revela, International Forum of photography and society” touring in the main cities of Galicia. He was also awarded with the “friends of the Unesco” prize to his career in information and image as a social commitment 2007-2008.

He was the winner the first edition of Luis Ksado photography creation contest.

He had developed several documentary project in the last decades, as “O segredo da frouxeira” winner of Mexican International Festival of Cinema with “Contra el silencio, todas las voces” in “Human Rights” category.

He also won the first prize in Spring Festival of Cinema. He was nominated in Mestre Mateo contest to the best documentary “A pegada dos avós”, that was selected as best documentary in Mestre Mateo contest and in the third edition of Spring Festival of Cinema, the “ISAAC” about the multi-faceted galicianist Isaac Díaz Pardo.

Patricia Trigales Carreiras (Doctors without Frothers)

Patricia Trigales Carreiras

Andrés Zaragoza (Amnesty International Rapporteur)

Andrés Zaragoza

Andrés Zaragoza Alberich has been a member of Amnesty International since 1989 and an activist in the Organization’s Country Team. It is currently responsible for providing visibility to the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar and the refugee camps in Bangladesh, where one million people from the Rohingya minority live in precarious conditions.

Presented by Cristina Ramallo (Amnesty International)

Cristina Ramallo

Prof. Dna. Andrea Cristina Ramallo Machín. She took a doctor’s degree in Law at the University of A Coruña. Graduate in History. Teacher, writer and human rights activist.

Carry: Gemma Malvido (Journalist of La Opinión)

Gemma Malvido

Gemma Malvido Otero (Bueu, 1984)

Journalism Degree by the University of Santiago de Compostela. In 2006, after university she started as an intern in the Corunna newspaper La Opinión, and since then Working in the local section of the newspaper.

The right to shelter from climate change: where is the policy? Are global responses possible?

Montse Prado (Diputada del BNG en el Palamento Galego)

Montse Prado has a diploma in EXB and a degree in Geography and History from the University of Santiago de Compostela and works for the Galician Health Service.
He has links with the associative movement, participating in the foundation and boards of directors of various cultural and neighborhood associations.

Councillor in Cambados from 1991 to 2005. Delegate in the province of Pontevedra of the Ministry of Innovation and Industry from 2005 to 2009. Member of the Board of Directors of the CRTVG (Galician Radio-Television Company) from 2009 to 2012. Member of the 9th Legislature, 2012-2016, spokeswoman for Health, Employment and Youth.

Member of the current legislature, spokeswoman for Health, Employment, Social Policies and Fisheries. Member of the Intergroup Peace and Solidarity with the Saharawi People in the 9th and 10th Legislatures. Member of the National Executive of the BNG.

Ricardo García Mira (Diputado del PSOE en el Congreso)

Ricardo García Mira is a Professor of Social and Environmental Psychology at the University of A Coruña (UDC), accredited at national level as a University Professor. He directed the Human-Environment Research Group of the SVP from 1995 to 2016. In 2016 he was appointed Visiting Professor at the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath, in the United Kingdom, for the period 2016-2018, and is also President of the scientific society International Association for People- Environment Studies (2014-2018).

He is currently a member of the Congress of Deputies for the province of A Coruña (11th and 12th Legislatures), where he is the spokesman of the Socialist Parliamentary Group in the Commission for the Study of Climate Change.

Antón Gómez Reino (En Marea, Diputado de Unidos Podemos en el Congreso)

Antón Gómez Reino

Born 7th of March 1980. Deputy of the XI and XII parliamentary terms
Lab technician in bacteriology. Worker and activist for social economy and International cooperation. Trained Technician in environmental health. LIGAL inspector (Galician Interprofesional Milk Testing Lab)

Ciudadanos y PP no respondieron

Presents the meeting: Mabel Pérez Simal (Trade unionist, equality expert)

Mabel Pérez Simal studied philosophy. He is a feminist, expert in labor relations and has a wide training: Labor Relations Superior Course from Santiago de Compostela University; Gender and Equality for Men and Women Master from Rey Juan Carlos University; Gender, Citizenship and Work Courses; and Trainers Trainer in Gender Area.

Her education is completed with a wide list of courses, tutorials, and seminary. She travelled to refugee camps in Greece, where she worked as volunteer focusing her work in women and their double or even tripe discrimination.

Ariadna Silva Fernández (A Estrada, Pontevedra),1996

Ariadna Silva

Student of the Master’s Degree in Artistic Photography and Documentary Photographic Narratives at the TAI School (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid). He studied Audiovisual Communication at the University of Santiago de Compostela for two years, although he finally moved to Madrid in 2016 to study the Professional Diploma in Photography at the TAI School. He is a member of the OlloAtlántico collective (focused on documentary, reportage and street photography). She has been selected in the Canon Student Program 2017 of the Visa Pour l’image International Photojournalism Festival of Perpignan and has published in 2018 the photo book “Fillos do vento” (BANCO Editorial), a personal story about the Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo.

His photographic and audiovisual work focuses on researching the Galician landscape as a pretext to study the strength of the territory in the shaping of the collective memory through cultural and religious traditions, family histories or the destruction of the natural environment.

Presented by Aitana Tubío

Guide: Marga Gonzalez (AI)

Marga Gonzalez

In relation to the NGO Amnesty International, she has been actively collaborating with the organization for 34 years, being the 1163rd of more than 84,404 members at present.

From the beginning he had numerous responsibilities within the entity:

• Member of the Executive Committee of AI.
• Coordinator of AI Galicia.
• Treasurer of the A Coruña Group of AI.

He is currently coordinating Amnesty International’s Group in A Coruña and collaborating in educational activities at ‘Acampa’.

Katsikas, Ecos dun éxodo

Film director Rodrigo Vázquez, produced by FILMANDRIL. Length: 46 min.

SYNOPSIS: A “refugee” camp in Katsikas, Greece, is the setting for this criticism of the global management of a people fleeing war and devastation in Syria. Through the testimony of some of its inhabitants, we will know the drama that these people are suffering and we will understand that they are people like us: with a name, a family, a house, a trade. People who lost everything in a war nobody wants. People who run away to try to guarantee their children a future.

The opinions reflected in this documentary, absolutely free, outline in a crude way that abandonment to which, with our indifference, we subject them day by day. They are personal testimonies, some of them with their backs turned and their voices deformed by the fear that still grips them: the relentless ghost of war that haunts every inhabitant of this camp.

Presented by Rodrigo Vázquez, film director

Organized by ONG A.I.R.E.

Organize: AMI Asociación de Montañeros Independientes

Asociación de Montañeros Independientes

Marcos Sorrentino

Marcos Sorrentino is a professor at the University of São Paulo, Piracicaba Campus/Department of Forestry Sciences, and coordinates the Laboratory of Environmental Education and Policy.

Since the 1970s, he has participated in various associations, collectives and networks of environmentalists and environmental education. He was director of EA at the Ministry of Environment of Brazil from 2003 to 2008.

Currently, he is developing a research project on public policies of EA together with the University of A Coruña and the CEIDA.

Simone Portugal

Simone Portugal is a teacher in Education at the University of Brasilia. Graduate in Artistic Education – Bachelor of Music. She is a research collaborator of the Laboratory of Environmental Education and Policy – Hueca/ Esalq/ USP.

She has experience in the development of books and teaching materials for children, young people and teachers and in the training of educators.

Organised by the Cooperation and Volunteering Office.

Guide: Marga Gonzalez (AI)

Marga Gonzalez

In relation to the NGO Amnesty International, she has been actively collaborating with the organization for 34 years, being the 1163rd of more than 84,404 members at present.

From the beginning he had numerous responsibilities within the entity:

• Member of the Executive Committee of AI.
• Coordinator of AI Galicia.
• Treasurer of the A Coruña Group of AI.

He is currently coordinating Amnesty International’s Group in A Coruña and collaborating in educational activities at ‘Acampa’.

On the shore of a vanishing island.

Ghoramara island is located on a delta region in West Bengal. Due to the dramatic increase in sea level, resulting from the e ects climate change. Since the 1960’s, the shores of this island are being perpetually washed away. And since the 1980’s, more than 50% of the territory has vanished due to erosion by the sea. As a result, two-thirds of the population have moved away from the island. Many of the people still living on the island are farmers and fishermen who depend on the island’s resources for their livelihoods.

According to a civil servant I met, in 20-25 years the Indian government could abolish the island and has already formulated a plan to evacuate villagers to another island named Sagar. However, this evacuation plan does not ensure any nancional support or compensation for those having to relocate their lives. I could see the traces of a heritage vanishing by the rising tides. Exposed roots of plants destroyed by the erosion serve to illustrate the absence of foundation in the lives of these people. e sea is swallowing up their past while their future remains unknown.

Futuristic Archaeology.

Nomadic life has been central to traditional Mongolian culture throughout history. Even with changes brought about by urbanisation in recent years, 35% of Mongolians are living a nomadic life and thus still depend on their vast, open land for survival. This is increasingly difficult because their traditional way of life is now being threatened due to serious changes in the land. According to a survey made by the Mongolian government, around 850 lakes and 2000 rivers and streams have dried out. This loss of water is contributing to the desertification of Mongolia, as 25% of its land has turned into desert in the past 30 years. Potentially 75 % of Mongolian territory is at risk of desertification.

These environmental changes directly threaten the Mongolian nomadic way of life, which has been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. This project attempts at recreating the museum diorama with actual people and their livestock in a real place where desertified in Mongolia. It is based on an imagination that these people try to go into museum diorama for survival in the future. This is accomplished with the printed images on a billboard placed in conjunction with the actual landscape horizon. By doing this, I hope to accomplish a sense that the lives of these nomadic people occur between this reality and a virtual space of a museum. Mongolian traditional nomadic lifestyle might be only existed in museum in the future.

Marcos Sorrentino

Marcos  Sorrentino es docente de la Universidad de São Paulo, campus de  Piracicaba/Departamento de Ciencias Forestales, coordina el Laboratorio de Educación y Política Ambiental.

Participa desde los años setenta de varias asociaciones, colectivos y redes de  ambientalistas y de educación ambiental.

Fue director de EA en el Ministerio del Medio Ambiente del Brasil, de 2003 a 2008. Actualmente, desarrolla una investigación sobre políticas públicas de EA junto a la Universidad de A Coruña y el  CEIDA.

Simone Portugal

Simone Portugal es maestra en Educación por la Universidad de Brasilia. Graduada en Educación Artística – Licenciatura en Música.

Es investigadora colaboradora del Laboratorio de Educación y Política Ambiental – Hueca/ Esalq/ USP.

Tiene experiencia en la elaboración de libros y materiales didácticos para niños/las, jóvenes y profesores/as y en procesos de formación de educadores/as.

Organiza la Oficina de Cooperación y Voluntariado

Daesung Lee

Daesung Lee is a photographer who lives in Paris, France. Through two projects, he has developed conceptual approaches to subject in documentary, using photography as a means of communicating his own perspective to the world. His works have been exhibited in numerous international festivals including Getxo Photo 2016 in Spain. And his work also world widely published in the media  Le Monde, The New Yorker, Geo Magazine Germany and others.

He was  one of the winners of the “Sony World Photography Awards” in 2013 and 2015. He also won the Lens Culture  visual storytelling awards 2014 and Portrait Award in 2015 and Prix Voies-Off  in Arles 2016.

Juan Pablo Moreiras

Juan Pablo Moreiras

Juan Pablo Moreiras (Normandy, France, 1967) has photographed conservation and development projects, current affairs, corporate reports and commissions in thirty-five countries over the past twenty-five years, with a special interest in the the relationship between human beings and an increasingly degraded environment.

He has worked on projects as diverse as the mountain gorillas in Rwanda, Uganda and Congo, the orangutans of Borneo and the problems of the oil palm plantations, the consequences of the tsunami in Sumatra, the eruption of the Soufriere volcano in Montserrat and the Nyamuragira in the Congo, Hurricane Mitch in Central America, the very rare crocodile Patagonia, deforestation in the forests of Ecuador, pollution in the Ukraine, the Fynbos of South Africa, deer hunting in Scotland, the biodiversity of Kyrgyzstan, the Black Pharaohs in Sudan or the fires in Galicia. He has recently worked on various sustainable development and conservation projects, and drought and the problem of poaching in northern Kenya, commissioned by The Northern Rangelands Trust, Ol Pejeta Conservancy and Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. He is currently working on a project on renewable energies.

He has published his work in magazines such as El Pais Semanal, La Vanguardia Magazine, El Mundo Magazine, XL Semanal, Time, National Geographic, Africa Geographic, Geographical, Kew Gardens Magazine, First, BBC Wildlife, Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald, L’Internazionale, Traveller, Diversity, Der Spiegel, Berliner Zeitung, Paris Match, VSD, Marie-Claire, Ciel et Space, Tusk Talk, San Diego Zoo Magazine, Interviú, Man, Viajar, Altair, Paisajes desde el tren, Ronda Iberia, Siete Leguas, Quo or Muy Interesante.

Ariadna Silva

A Estrada, (Pontevedra),1996. Student of the Master’s Degree in Artistic Photography and Documentary Photographic Narratives at the TAI School (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid). He studied Audiovisual Communication at the University of Santiago de Compostela for two years, although he finally moved to Madrid in 2016 to study the Professional Diploma in Photography at the TAI School. He is a member of the OlloAtlántico collective (focused on documentary, reportage and street photography). She has been selected in the Canon Student Program 2017 of the Visa Pour l’image International Photojournalism Festival of Perpignan and has published in 2018 the photo book “Fillos do vento” (BANCO Editorial), a personal story about the Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo.

His photographic and audiovisual work focuses on researching the Galician landscape as a pretext to study the strength of the territory in the shaping of the collective memory through cultural and religious traditions, family histories or the destruction of the natural environment.

Pedro Armestre (Save the Children)

Pedro Armestre

1972 (A Rasela, Verín)

Ourense.He began his career in 1993, directing his images towards photojournalism, which he successfully carried out at Europa Press, Cover, El Mundo, Xl Semanal, Interviu, etc. Between 2003 and 2016, France Presse International distributed his images and published them in the most prestigious newspapers and magazines in the world.

In 2014 he created the audiovisual production company Calamar2, specialized in social and environmental content. In 2015 the gallery www.armestregallery.com was created where numbered copies and limited series of some of his works can be purchased.
Throughout his career his photography has a sensitizing character related to the defense of human rights, and the care and preservation of the natural environment. His path, clearly marked, leads him to maintain intense relationships with organizations dedicated to these fields, and for them he has developed multiple photographic projects and creative developments.

“Four elements. Basic principles of life” is Pedro Armestre’s most personal project. Through his personal prism, he discovers the interaction of men with the environment in which they have generated modifications in the landscape and on multiple occasions, an imbalance that puts life at risk.
He has received several distinctions and awards, including the King of Spain Prize for Photojournalism, Pictures of the Year International POYi, Ortega y Gasset Prize, Manos Unidas National Journalism Prize, Pictures of the Year Poy Latan, etc. He has published three of his own photographic books and participated in numerous groups. Individual and collective exhibitions in different countries.

Introducing Xosé Abad

Xosé Abad

Víctor Viñuales, sociologist, co-founder and Director of Ecología y Desarrollo.

Vice-president of the Spanish Global Compact Network, member of the Social Council of INDITEX and of the Panel of Experts on sustainability of Sol Meliá. Associate Professor of the Senior Management Programme in Corporate Responsibility at IE Business School since 2007. Member of the Advisory Council of the Biodiversity Foundation. Member of the Advisory Board of Triodos Bank España, of the Advisory Board of CREAS Fondo Social. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Cooperation Fund for Water and Sanitation of the Government of Spain, of the Consultation Panel on Transparency and Active Listening of Ecoembes and a member of the Advisory Council of the Hazlo posible Foundation.

He is the author of “Caja de herramientas para los constructores del cambio” (2008) and co-founder of “Sabores Próximos”, an organic farming company.

Dra. Valeria Bello, Researcher at the United Nations University Institute for Globalisation, Culture and Mobility.

Valeria Bello is Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Globalisation, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM; and one of the two “featured expert”  of the United Nations University for the Sustainable Development Goal number 10: “Reduced Inequalities”.

She is author of the book “International Migration and International Security. Why Prejudice is a Global Security Threat” (Routledge 2017), in which she analyses the root causes of different forms of forced migration, and she has collaborated as an expert on migration, prejudice and human security with several national governments and with the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and several other agencies of the United Nations, including the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, and the Public Communication Departments of the UN.

She is currently a Governing Council Member of the European International Studies Association and she has been coordinator of the research project PACIFIC which has considered the main political challenges of environmentally induced migration and the consequences in terms of migration and human security that climate change entails for the individuals, peoples and communities living in the Pacific Islands.

Moderator: Pedro Vega (UDC)

Pedro Vega Marcote, Professor of Environmental Education and Sustainable Development and Experimental Science Teaching at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of A Coruña (UDC). He has carried out research in Training of Teachers, Sustainability and Innovations in Climate Change Education, the Ecological Footprint and reduction of Emissions of Greenhouse Gases.

Drive: Consuelo Bautista

Born in Barcelona, 9th of August of 1966.

Head of Radio Coruña Cadena Ser Information Services since 1993 until now.

Degree in Information Sciences –Journalism- from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 1984-1989.

Degree in Marketing and Advertising from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 1984-1989.

Assistant doctoral dissertation on Banking Marketing 1985-1988.

Ondas Award in 2003 for the coverage of Prestige with the information services of the Cadena SER.

Director of the Professorship of Radio Coruña Cadena SER, University of Coruña.

Co-director of the postgraduate course in radio communication Radio Coruña Cadena SER, Faculty of Communication Sciences.

Presents: Laura Lizancos (Families for peace)

Ezetaerre

Ezetaerre is a combative rap group in Galician, formed by Garchu (A Coruña), Pirola (Ourense), Glitchgirl (Luanco) and Petrowski (O Porriño). Our journey began in the Faculty of Audiovisual Communication in A Coruña, where we shared studies, struggles and experiences in the student movement. From there, we released a presentation demo, the album Aspiraciones mínimas y urgentes, the singles La herencia del viento and No es verano by Estrella Damm and the recent EP 100.

This is not going to remain here and we will continue to make war, without forgetting those three words that have accompanied us from the beginning: dignity, solidarity and humility.

CONTACT

+34 647 225 231
contacto@ezetaerre.com

Presented by Clara López

Juan Pablo Moreiras – Fragile

We live on a planet that has been restlessly changing for 4,500 million years, but the great environmental impact that human development is making on its own habitat is accelerating a growing imbalance between human beings and at the same time between them and the rest of living creatures. Human is the only animal that destroys the natural environment where he lives, thanks to his extraordinary capacity to modify it and adapt it to his needs. While reaching an overwhelming success for himself, he deeply alters its environment at great speed, even endangering his own future as a species. In his expansion he pollutes water, air and soil.

Three out of four primate species will become extinct in the next 50 years. The main cause is agriculture, followed by logging, livestock and hunting. Between 1990 and 2010, agricultural practices have consumed 1.5 million square kilometres of their habitats, three times the total area of ​​Spain. The orangutan has lost 60% of its habitat in just two decades due to the felling for the oil palm plantation. The only way to avoid this extinction is to develop local economies in tropical countries, reduce consumption rates in developed countries and protect the forests worldwide.

Over the next few years, millions of people will be forced to leave their homes due to environmental upsets. Deforestation, drought, natural catastrophes, desertification, pollution, loss of biological diversity, unbalanced exploitation of natural resources… Too often, people live in places with a great abundance of natural resources but with unsustainable poverty rates. The exploitation of these resources by rich societies that demand them with voracity occurs irresponsibly and unfairly, and is the cause of many inequalities that cause poverty, hunger, war and ignorance.

Organize: AMI Asociación de Montañeros Independientes

Asociación de Montañeros Independientes

Guide: Marga Gonzalez (AI)

Marga Gonzalez

In relation to the NGO Amnesty International, she has been actively collaborating with the organization for 34 years, being the 1163rd of more than 84,404 members at present.

From the beginning he had numerous responsibilities within the entity:

• Member of the Executive Committee of AI.
• Coordinator of AI Galicia.
• Treasurer of the A Coruña Group of AI.

He is currently coordinating Amnesty International’s Group in A Coruña and collaborating in educational activities at ‘Acampa’.

Pedro Armestre (Save the Children)

Pedro Armestre

1972 (A Rasela, Verín) Ourense.

His career started in 1993 with his images swinging towards photojournalism, which he used with success for the Europa Press agency, the Cover agency, the daily newspaper El Mundo and magazines such as XI Semanal, and Interviu amongst others.  Between the years 2003 and 2016 the international agency France Presse distributed his work to prestigious newspapers and magazines throughout the world.

In 2014 he formed the audiovisual production company Calamar2 specializing in social and environmental content.  In 2015 www.armestregallery.com is born, where numbered limited edition copies of some of his body of work can be obtained.

Throughout his career his photography exhibits a sensitizing character that is a result of its relationship with the defence of human rights, and the care and preservation of the environment.  His journey, clearly marked out leads him to maintain intense relationships with organizations dedicated to these spheres, and to this end he has carried out multiple photographic projects and creative developments.

“Four Elements. The Basic Principles of Life” is Pedro Armestre’s most personal project.  He discovers through his own personal lens the interaction of man with the environment, within which man has wrought changes to the landscape and in many cases brings about an imbalance that endangers life itself.

He has received many varied awards and prizes, amongst them stand out the Premio Rey de España for photojournalism, Pictures of the Year POYi, Premio Ortega y Gasset,  Manos Unidos Premio Nacional for journalism, Pictures of the Year Poy Latan, etc. He has edited three books of his own photographs and has held numerous exhibitions of his own work and participated in many collective exhibitions.

Juan Pablo Moreiras

Juan Pablo Moreiras

Juan Pablo Moreiras (Normandy, France, 1967) has photographed conservation and development projects, news, reports and corporate commissions in thirty-five countries during the last twenty-five years, with special interest in the relationship between the human being and an environment increasingly deteriorated.

He has worked on projects as diverse as the Mountain Gorillas in Rwanda, Uganda and Congo, Borneo orangutans and the problem of oil palm plantations, the consequences of the Sumatra tsunami, the eruption of the Soufriere volcano in Montserrat and the Nyamuragira in the Congo, Hurricane Mitch in Central America, the almost extinct Philippine crocodile, the condor in Patagonia, deforestation in the forests of Ecuador, pollution in Ukraine, Fynbos in South Africa, deer hunting in Scotland, biodiversity in Kyrgyzstan, the Black Pharaohs in Sudan or the forest fires in Galicia. He recently photographed different sustainable development and conservation projects, and the drought and poaching problem in northern Kenya, commissioned by The Northern Rangelands Trust, Ol Pejeta Conservancy and Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. He is currently working on a project on renewable energies.

He has published his work in magazines such as El Pais Semanal, La Vanguardia Magazine, El Mundo Magazine, XL Semanal, Time, National Geographic, Africa Geographic, Geographical, Kew Gardens Magazine, First, BBC Wildlife, Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald, L’Internazionale, Traveler, Diversity, Der Spiegel, Berliner Zeitung, Paris Match, VSD, Marie-Claire, Ciel et Space, Tusk Talk, San Diego Zoo Magazine, Interviú, Man, Travel, Altair, Paisajes desde el tren, Ronda Iberia, Siete Leguas, Quo or Muy Interesante.

Anabel Montes Mir (POA)

Anabel Montes

I’m from Asturias, I’m 31 years old. I have worked as a lifeguard for 12 years, especially in Asturias and the last 4 in Barcelona. I have training in various rescue courses (rivers, lakes, underwater, maritime …).

I arrived in Lesbos in December 2015 as a volunteer for 15 days with Open Arms and that became the last two years of my life. In Lesbos I spent 9 months, above all, as a patron of fast boats and also as coordinator of the operation on the island.

In the Mediterranean I have been in 15 missions in Astral, Golfo Azzurro and Open Arms, also the majority as patroness and the last four as head of mission aboard the Open Arms.

Ernesto G. Maleno (Caminado Fronteras)

Ernesto G. Maleno

I am a tangerine, political scientist and audiovisual producer. Communication Manager of Walking Borders. Author of the documentary “Tarajal: transforming pain into justice”. Member of Mora Youth and the Moroccan student movement.

Ramiro G. De Dios (Xuiz CIE Aluche)

Ramiro G. de Dios

Ramiro García de Dios has been for 30 years head of the Court of Instruction number 6 in Madrid and one of the first judges of control of the Aluche Foreigners’ Detention Centre, where he has served for eight years.

Federico Pichel (ONG AIRE)

Federico Pichel

Federico Pichel Ferreiro.  Studied Economic Sciences and Business Studies in the University of A Coruña, but has spent the last 14 years as a fire-fighter.  He combines this with volunteer work for an NGO, A.I.R.E. of which he is the current President.

His formation and experience lies in dealing with water and sanitary based emergencies.  He is a qualified and experienced diver who is a professional specialized in rescue, life-saving and first-aid.  A qualified sailor with Master’s papers he has medical emergency training, especially in the marine and underwater environment.

Although he has always been supportive of solidarity values and has collaborated with numerous organizations, he was so impacted by those photographs of little Aylan that he has become closely involved with the dramatic refugee situation.

Carry: Fernanda Tabarés

Fernanda Tabarés

Fernanda Tabarés (1968) has been a journalist since she was born.

At the age of eighteen, while studying Information Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid, he already started working as an intern at the newspaper La Región.
At the age of twenty-two, he began to work in the group ‘La Voz de Galicia’, and is still there twenty-eight years later.

She has a very long and varied professional career, which has led her to be head of delegation, head of culture, editor-in-chief and columnist of Diario 16, director of V Televisión, director of the current affairs and analysis programme Vía V, professor of business communication at Erlac… and currently and since last year director of Voz Audiovisual.

Presented by Isabel Rey (Rede galega en apoio ás persoas refuxiadas)

Isabel Rey

works with the Galician Support Network for refugees. painter and dedicated to audiovisuals. The Redrefugiadas brings together over 70 NGOs and groups, with a common interest, to fight for the Refugees and demanding that the Spanish government to stop infringing The Human Rights and the International Legislation.

MJ Pérez is one of the new voices on the current Galician music scene. He began his tour in 2014 and now has almost 100 concerts in different cities and towns in Galicia. He now has three albums, one self-edited and two self-produced. María José, a native of Arzúa, began this journey in 2013 by creating “Ollos que non ven, síntoma de cegueira” (2013), her first work; a self-released album made up of 10 tracks that marked the beginning of this project. From this point on, in 2014, MJ continued his activity in a firmer way and took his music to other fields such as poetry. It was here that he began to collaborate with the poet Mercedes Leobalde. That same year, he was a finalist in the ‘I Certame de Canción de Autor en Galego’ of the Council of Teo, with artists such as Nastasia Zürcher, Sofía Espiñeira and Alba María.

A year later, MJ released his second album, “Guerrilleira” (2015), an album with 12 songs united by a common theme: war. A minimalist project, full of freshness that presents an evolution in both performance and music. The final result is a fusion of different styles, with a predominance of rock-pop. This was followed by an intense tour of almost 2 years throughout Galicia, passing through stages such as the Noroeste Pop Rock Festival (2015).

Drinking from the mixture of styles, her third album “Cassandra” (September 2017) was born, an album that marks a turning point in the artist’s work. It is a work that is characterized by the fusion of styles without losing sight of the essence, which also stands out for the presence of several special collaborations: Serj, Ailén Kendelman, Richi Casás, Paco Cerdeira and Martiño Cabarcos. The artist arrives at this third album after a year marked by her second place in the “VII Concurso Musical da Deputación da Coruña” competing with groups like Bala, The Trunks or Jamie Fifthring and the release of the single “A Peza Solta” with the collaboration of Lidia Bao from A Coruña. In addition to this, he took first place at the “Xuventude Crea 2017” and toured extensively to present his latest album “Casandra”.

At this moment, MJ, besides the presentation of his new album all over Galicia, takes on new challenges such as performing in Portugal for the first time or recording his first single in Portuguese.

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