A photo, a story

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.