Delmi Alvarez, is a Galician documentary photographer and writer, in contemporary issues, environment and human rights. His works have been published in magazines, newspapers and displayed in exhibitions. Delmi began the professional career in 1983 as writer and photojournalist for the newspapers La Región, A Nosa Terra and El País, documenting social worker conflicts (Reconversión naval).

In documentary photography, there are several bodies of work that have attracted a special attention. The Galician Diaspora (1989-2009), the Emigration to Europe (Transmigrants, 2003-2016), the Yugoslav War (1991-1993), the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu in Romania, March 22, 1990, the life of the Cubans in the 90s during the Plan Especial en Periodo de Paz (1990-91), the mining gold with cyanid in Europe (In the name of gold, 2013), the declaration of independence in Catalunya ("En procés", 2017) or the Hambach forest (Hambi, 2018) in Germany.

Between 1990 and 1991 he lived in La Habana documenting the life of cubans as photographer and writer, work that won the first prize Fotopres (Barcelona). During a flight between República Dominicana and La Habana in 1991 the luggage was stolen and a lot of negatives in black & white about the documentary in the island is missing.

After Cuba he covered the Yugoslavia war (1991-95) as correspondent for a newspaper writing chronicles and sending pictures from the frontline. A small book was published as eyewitness of the atrocity and aftermath of the conflict, where many children and women were killed by snippers. (Reporteiro de guerra en Iugoslavia. Ed. Xerais, Crónica. 1994). In 1993 he got enter several times in Sarajevo to document the siege.

In 1996 Delmi spent several months in Bahia, Brazil, documenting slavery and child labor in the Sisal, the quarries, and poverty. During that time he photographed the Beirú neighborhood and gave several lectures at UFBA. She contracted dengue in the city's garbage dumps where she photographed the badameiros, children and adults, searching for food and objects among the rotten garbage.

In 2003 he worked till 2012 as a writer and photographer for the daily Diena, publishing reports in the weekly magazine SestDiena. The first documentary project that began as soon as he settled in the Baltic country was daily life in a school for blind children, in Jugla, Border guards of Latvia, and many other traveling around the whole country. He was in the team with photojournaist Ilmars Znotins, Aivars Liepins and others.

Delmi lost sight in his right eye during that time in living in Latvia, and wanted to get closer to meet the children who despite lacking vision struggle to survive in an unjust society. From this project emerged PhotoYouth where many of the students were blind. It was an impossible mission to convince many people that children with disabilities also have the right to live in a more just society and that society itself must break down walls against integration.

In Latvia he began a documentary project photographing inside several prisons about life conditions and human rights.

Throughout his career he has been invited as guest lecturer and speaker in different places and countries, universities and schools about the importance of visual story telling, documentary photography and photojournalism. As writer he published several books and one documentary long term project "Galegos na Diáspora, 1989-2009". In this master piece of work based in visual ethnography, the photographer traveled around the world for 20 years looking for the Galicians emigrated from Galicia, like his grandmother and grandfather they went to Cuba, and his aunts to Germany. The book, with more 500 pages with black & white images had a presentation in the History Department of the Library of Congress in Washington DC and in the City University of New York (CUNY) in 2009, with the participation of the Galician diáspora, experts and teachers. Two copies of this book are part now of the library collection. More than 20 films in black & white of the trip by Africa were destroyed in a lab by a mistake.

In 2003 he started a photoessay about prisons in Latvia, documenting the conditions of inmates and places. The first prison of Skirotavas in Riga, was closed due to the bad quality of the place that didn't fit with the European standard prisons requirements. Pictures had been published in prisonphotography.org and in cooperation with Ministry of Justice of Latvia, Human Rights NGO's and APT (Association for the Prevention of Torture) Monitoring Police Custody - A practical guide Published in January 2013 by the Association for the Prevention of Torture. 2013. https://cutt.ly/Whb3XJa

From 2012 till 2013 he founded the project PhotoYouth a photography project for children with special needs (PSN) and for whose don’t have the opportunity to approach to the world of Visual Art or Visual Education, a Interreg Programme called Estlarus Under Priority III: Promotion of people to people cooperation, Measure 3.2 Cooperation in spheres of culture, sport, education, social and health. www.photoyouth.org. In the project participated latvian phtojournalist Ilmars Znotins and schools from Riga and more than 250 children and 50 educators from Russia and Latvia (Pskow, Riga, St. Petersburg, Vyborg).

His big concern is about the legacy we will leave to the children of the future: a world of plastic, pollution, climate change, forests without trees, a great environmental disaster difficult to recover due to the "great technological advance" of the society of the modern world: Anthropogenic.

In September 2018, he began to document the struggle of people to protect the small Hambach forest (a.k.a. Hambi) in the northern state of Rhineland-Westphalia (NRW) in Germany. The destroy of the ancient forest is on the mind of mining company RWE due to a project of expansion of the coal mine (lignite). The place is a millennial forest of 200 hectares where lives protected species such as the Bechstein bat.

In progress: Décolonisation. A long-term documentary research about the genocide of million of people in Congo.

In the educational aspect, he researches in Visual Anthropology applied to changes in societies (enrolled in a degree in Anthropology).

Drawing, design and architecture have a great influence and passion in his most personal work, which he discovered unconsciously thanks to the criticism of architects like Bar Boo, of whom he photographed a large part of his work. Vanishing points are very common in urban and landscape images.

In November 2020 he published a second edition book about the Balkans war as a documentary project: Érase una vez en Europa. 1990-1995. War chronicles and photos in Balkans from 1991 till 1995 and texts of: Ron Haviv, Alfonso Armada, Sandra Veic Sukreski, Luis Congil, Marleen Daniels, Dzemil Hozic y Ramiro Villapadierna.

Between september 2021 and february 2022 documenting in la isla de Palma several subjects on the volcano eruption in basis on visual anthropology.

Together with other experts from a network of neutral volunteers they monitor as observers and witnesses situations of conflicts or disasters and make conclusions with reports for groups of consultants, NGOs and human rights that can help to resolve and prevent situations.

In april 2022 two new books are published: “La Isla Resiliente" (The resilient island) about the human and social economic aftermath in La Palma island under the recently volcano eruption that destroyed thousand of structure families, houses, agriculture land and job losses by the volcanic lava., and Galegos na Diáspora 1989-2022, a long term documentary project about Galician Diaspora around the world. An exhibition of 10 images in Brussels, to denounce the situation of those affected by the La Palma volcano.

January 2023. The RWE mine company destroyed the small village of Lutzerath in Renania, Germany, very close to Hambi forest (now is dying because the lack of water) documenting the activism against coal in mine Garzweiler II after the government order to follow burning the fossil-fuel to get power from plant energies. Saturday 14, January 2023, police clashed with activists: 145 injured.

From 1984 is a contributor with EL PAIS, covering reportages, NATO and political activity in the European institutions in Brussels. He is between Baltics, UK, Spain and EU countries.

2023 is the year to publish a new book: Cuba 1991. A long term documentary project living in the island documenting the crisis on Período Especial en Tiempos de Paz.

Drone pilot license: drone pilot with certified license in A1, A2, A3 and Specific STS 01 and 02 by European Aviation Safety Agency EASA and Spanish Aviation Safety and Security Agency AESA.