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Résumé
Photojournalist;
Photo Editor; Page Editor designer; Documentary projects; Founder of
International and Galician Photojournalism Seminar (SGF); Photo
Editor in Diario de Galicia (1985-87), work has appeared in magazines
and newspapers; recipient, 1993 CCG fellowship for project Galegos na
Diáspora in Asia and Oceanía, 1996 DPP fellowship for
Meninos de Rua in Salvador de Bahia, Brasil; War correspondent in
former Yugoslavia; Book about war in former Yugoslavia, Ed.
Xerais, Vigo 1994; two Photojournalism awards Fotopress, Barcelona;
teacher; lecturer; Black&White darkroom workshops-seminars;
writer; editor of Cadernos de Fotoxornalismo; Former stringer REUTERS
photographer. Former stringer photographer Associated Press (AP) in
Galicia country. Consello da Cultura Galega fellowship recipient in
Africa, for the Antrophological and photodocumentalism "Galegos
na Diáspora" project. Member of Colexio Profesional de
Xornalistas de Galicia (Galician Profesional Journalism Association).
2002-2005 Photoeditor and photojournalist in Sestdiena magazine (Diena
newspapers, Riga, Latvia). Curator and author of projects for Direccion
Xeral de Turismo Xunta
de Galicia (Regional government), Conselleria de Pesca Xunta de
Galicia, Xacobeo. International projects with Magnum photographers.
2007-08
Coordinator and participant with
MAGNUM photographers, Ian Berry, Richard Kalvar, Bruno Barbey in the
project Viena Diena Latvija (One day in Latvia), 31 August 2007.
Author
and curator project www.photobaltic.org
in Riga, Latvia for Interreg Central Baltic programme.
Author
and curator of project for TVG (Galician TV) O Rei Galego
de Africa. Namibia. Video HDV.
Author
and curator of MAR, a book with MAGNUM photographers: Ian Berry,
Richard Kalvar, Xulio Villarino, Delmi Alvarez. Book. Conselleria de
Pesca, Xunta de Galicia.
Author
and curator of GZ (Galiza) with MAGNUM photographers: Ian Berry,
Richard Kalvar, Geert Van Kesteren, Delmi Alvarez. Book and
exhibition. Direccion Xeral de Turismo, Xunta de Galicia.
Author
and curator of One way, 13 looks (Un Camino trece miradas)
Photographers from Galicia, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Czech
Republic, Spain. Book and exhibitions. Xacobeo and Xunta de Galicia.
One way, 13 looks,Camino de Santiago. Exhibitions
in Castellon and Alicante.
One way, 13 looks, Camino de Santiago. Exhibition in Prague,
4 june.
Magazine Il Venerdi, del Diario la Reppublica, Italia. Reportage about Pride Days in Riga.
Ferrol en Foco. Organized by Luis Mera, Club de Prensa de Ferrol.
Galicia en Foco, Organized by Luis Mera, Club de Prensa de Ferrol.
One way, 13 looks. Exhibition
in Caltagirone, Sicilia.
2006
Galegos
na Diaspora Rusia.
Curator of projects
Camino
de Santiago en Galicia project
Exhibition
in Vigo, Ferrol, Santiago
Exhibition in Copenhaguen 21st june
Exhibition
in Buenos Aires
Exhibition
in Montevideo.
2005
Production
of Galegos na Diáspora exhibition.
April 17th, II Talsi
workshop of Photojournalism organized by FotoKlub Talsi and Delmi
Alvarez as lecturer. " The travel photograhy and photographers
on the road".
Sestdiena magazine. Photoeditor.
Photojournalist. Senior writer.
Photojournalism Seminar in the
faculty of Stradina Universitate, Riga, january
Exhibition 20
october in Vigo Galegos na Diaspora documentary photography.
Organized by Caixanova.
Publish book Galegos na Diaspora by Ed,
Xerais, Vigo. Spring.
Cover agency assignments.
O Sorriso de
Daniel by O Consello da Cultura Galega. DVD with images of Galegos na
Diaspora project. Intinerancy diferents spanish cities.
2004
Lecture. 27
de octubre: Jornadas de Fotoperiodismo en Alicante: Ponencia "El
Fotoperiodismo como testigo presencial en la sociedad contemporánea".
organizadas por la Asociación de la Prensa de Alicante, en el
Museo Arqueológico. Ponentes: David Airob (La Vanguardia),
Xulio Villarino (Fotoperiodista independiente).
Based in Riga,
Latvia, as Photo Editor, Photojournalist
and writer in Sestdiena magazine and Cover agency (Spain) covering
events in Latvia and Finland, and documentary development of Baltic
countries.
Diena's Diploma of integration in the Newsroom and
media life.
Diena's Diploma to new journalist in the
newsroom.
Seminar in Talsi (North Latvia). "Photojournalists
as a eyewitness in a modern society".
Editor of
Photojournalism notebooks.com
Last edition of documentary project
Galegos na Diáspora to publish as a book in Vigo, Galicia, in
Edicións Xerais de Galicia.
Edition of Exhibition Galegos
na Diáspora in Vigo.
Documentary photographic project of
Latvia as a modern country growing up in a new Europe. Lectures and
exhibition in 2005.
"O sorriso de Daniel". Pictures of
the documentary project "Galegos na Diáspora" .
Consello da Cultura Galega, Santiago de Compostela. Itinerant
exhibition.
2003
Working
on assignment for La Voz de Galicia in East Europe
Based in
Latvia, Sestdiena magazine, covering events as a documentary
photographic project.
2002
Based
in Sweden
Lecturer in Escuela de Imagen y Sonido de
Vigo
Collective exhibition pro-Palestina in Hotel Araguaney.
Santiago de Compostela. April
Project Galegos na Diaspora
Escandinavia: Sweden, Finland
Project Galegos na Diaspora
Lanzarote
Lecturer in Goteborg Universite Photography. Goteborg,
Sweden.
Working on Assignments for La Voz de Galicia
2001
Based
in Berlin
Stringer photographer Associated Press (AP)
Lecturer
in Galician schools about War photojournalism.
Teacher of
photojournalism, Escuela de Imagen y Sonido Vigo
Photojournalism
Seminar in Facultad de Pol?ticas de la Universidad de Santiago de
Compostela. March
Photojournalism Seminar in Escuela de Imaxe e
Son de Vigo. April.
Photojournalism Seminar in Escuela de Imaxe e
Son de Vigo. June.
Project with University of Yale, USA,
about Violence. n?mero especial del Journal of Spanish Cultural
Studies titulado "Representations of violence."
July
to September: ÁFRICA 2001: Galegos na Diáspora. Finish
the project. Travelling around ?frica.
25 years of Democracy in
Spain. Colective exhibiton. Madrid, Telefonica.
2000
Stringer
photojournalist for Associated Press (AP) in Galicia.
Lecturer in
schools in Galicia
Photo Editor and photojournalist in Diario de
Pontevedra. March-September.
Teacher of Photojournalism in Escuela
de Imagen y Sonido. Vigo.
1999
Based
in London as independent photographer for AP and AFP press
agencies.
Becoming to MAGNUM Photos Agency contest
Freelance
for TNT Magazine (London)
Walk Camino de Santiago (Camino Francés)
on assignment for El Correo Gallego
Walk Camino de Santiago
(Camino Portugués) on assignment for El Correo Gallego
REUTERS
photographer
Assignment for University of Yale.
1998
Lecturer
in Facultat de Ciencias Sociales. Universitat de Barcelona.
Lecturer about Meninos de rua in Sindicato de Profesores do
Norte. Viana do Castelo, Portugal.
Scholarship by Centro Reina
Sofía about Seminario Violencia contra niños, Valencia,
2-3 november.
1997
Editor
of Cadernos de Fotoxornalismo (12 numbers).
Retrospective:
Delmi Álvarez, 1983-1997. Casa das Artes. Concello de
Vigo.
Corbis represent a collection of your pictures in
Internet.
1996
Workshop
about Photojournalism. CIG. S. de Compostela.
Workshop about
Photojournalism in Casa da Xuventude. Concello de Vigo.
Scholarship
for a photo essay in Salvador de Bahía about children that
lived in the streets (Meninos de rua, Salvador de Bahía,
Brasil)
Lecture about civil war in the Facultade de Comunica?ao da
Universidade de Salvador de Bahía.
Collective exhibition
Galicia en Foco (Ferrol)
1995
Work
in El Mundo de Galicia (freelance). Santiago de Compostela.
Work
in El Ideal Gallego. A Coruña.
Return to Bosnia to cover
the civil war.
Lecturer in Barcelona about civil war in Yugoslavia
with ponents journalists, Javier Bauluz, Antonio Espejo, Fernando
Quintela. La Caixa (Barcelona)
1994
Lecturer
in Facultade de Xornalismo. Santiago de Compostela.
Lecture about
civil war in Centro de Prensa Internacional. S. de Compostela.
Travel
around Alberca (Salamanca)
Work in Madrid for Cover.
Take
pictures in Parque del Guarajonay. La Gomera, Islas
Canarias.
1993
Xornadas
about Photojournalism in the Facultade de Xornalismo of Universidade
de Santiago de Compostela.
Travel to finish the photographic essay
about galician emigration to Asia (Jerusalem, Filipines, Thailand,
Malaysia, Singapur, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand,
Bali)
Individual exhibition about Cuba. Casa da Cultura
(Vigo)
Individual exhibition about Cuba. Caja de Madrid
(Pontevedra)
Return to Bosnia to cover the civil war.
Lecture
about Cuba. Concello de Malpica. October.
Publish Reporteiro de
guerra in Yugoslavia (Edicións Xerais, Vigo)
Win the first
prize Fotopress with the serie collection of photographs about: Cuba,
el ?ltimo bastión, la lucha de un pueblo. (Barcelona)
Is
finalist with pictures about war in Fotopress award.
1992
Collective
exhibition Fotoxornalismo 80/90. Concellalía de Cultura do
Concello de Vigo.
Collective exhibition 500 A?os de Resistencia
Ind?gena "Non queremos que nos boten unha manos, queremos que
nos as quiten de enriba", Mirando o sur. (Concello de Oleiros, A
Coruña)
Lectures and course about Photojournalism in the
Facultade de Ciencias da Comunicación of Universidade de
Compostela:
February 11th: Lecture and slides projection about
Cuba
February 12th: Lecture and slides projection about Yuoslavia
war.
February 13th: Lecture and silde projection about Galegos na
Di?spora.
February 24th: Lecture and slide projection about
Fotoxornalismo and Cuba situation. Aula Magna of Instituto Coruxo
(Vigo)
Collective
exhibition Documentalistas, with Bruce Gilden, Arlene Gottfried,
Steve Hart, Miguel Trillo, Vitor Vaqueiro, Delmi Álvarez. Casa
das Artes (Vigo, 23th june to 23 july)
1990-1991
Based in la Habana.
Travel
to Rumania to cover the fights between hungary and rumanian
people. Fall of Ceacesceu in Bucarest.
Collective exhibition and
book Vigo retrato en vivo (Vigo)
Collective exhibition and book
Traballadoras. Secretaría da muller da CXTG (Vigo)
Travel
to North and South Am?rica to continue with the photo essay Galegos
na Diáspora. (Canada, U.S.A., México, Nicaragua, Cuba,
Venezuela, Brasil, Argentina)
Gijón, 5th may. Sailing with
ecologist association GreenPeace on board Sirius.
Individual
exhibition in A Nosa Galiza, Centro gallego in Géneve
(Suisse)
Work for Galicia Moda fashion magazine.
Meeting and
work with Ian Berry (Magnum)
Lived in La Habana taken pictures
about cuban life.
In June travel to Croacia (Yugoslavia) to cover
the war.
Return to La Habana and read a article about civil war in
Croacia (Taller Internacional de Fotografía)
Collective
exhibition Fotoxornalismo 80/90 (Lugo)
Collective exhibition an
book reference in Cuatro Direcciones, patrocined by Centro de Arte
Reina Sofía, Ministerio de Cultura. (Madrid)
1987-1989
Work
in Diario de Galicia (Vigo)
Travel to Amsterdam where live.
Start
the photographic essay Galegos na Diáspora travelling
around Europe.
1987
Universidade
Internacional Menéndez Pelayo U.I.M.P. (Coruña)
Collective
exhibition in Galicia a Pé de Foto. U.I.M.P. (Vigo-Coruña)
Win
the first prize Fotopres in instántaneas (Barcelona)
Travel
to Toronto and Massawippi lake (Canada) where live for
months.
1986
Irmanamento
Vigo-Porto. Collective exhibition. (Vigo and Porto).
II
Fotobienal. (Vigo).
Fotopress.(Barcelona).
Exhibition in
College of Coia 2 and 4 (Vigo)
1985
Ollares
no Tempo. Collective exhibition. Sá Os Peiraos.
(Vigo).
Fotoxornalismo Galego Hoxe. Collective exhibition. (Vigo,
Coruña, Lugo).
Fotógrafos pola Paz. (A
Coruña).
1984-1991
Free-lance
photojournalist stringer for El País (Madrid)
I Fotobienal.
Collective exhibition. (Vigo).
Fotógrafos pola Paz.
Colective exhibition. (A Coruña).
1983
Start
in photojourmalism
Work for La Región (Ourense) about
correspondent (stringer)
Work for A Nosa Terra newspaper
(Vigo)
Other
Lectures about Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
Colexio
Peleteiro, Santiago de Compostela
Seminar of Photojournalism,
Talsi, Latvia, 15th may, 2004
Faculty of Photography of Goteborg,
Sweden 2002.
Instituto Alexandre Bóveda. Coia.
Vigo.
Instituto Ensino Medio de Redondela.
Galicia en Foco.
Ferrol.
Outono Fotográfico, Ourense.
Facultade de
Xornalismo da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Casa da
Cultura de Cangas
Instituto de FP do Mexioeiro. Vigo.
Instituto
de Coruxo. Vigo.
Facultade de Económicas da Universidade de
Vigo. Vigo.
Colexio Martin Codax. Vigo
Colexio de Ensino Medio
de Silleda.
Cursode Fotoxornalismo da CIG. Lugo
Curso de
Fotoxornalismo da CIG-Milladoiro, Santiago de Compostela.
Facultat
de Ciencias Sociales. Universitat de Barcelona
Slides exhibition
in Centro Okupa de Barcelona
Smalls lecturers in London for
beginners
Facultade
de Comunicacao e Jornalismo da Bahía (UFBA),
Brazil.
Fotobienal de La Habana, Cuba.
I Curso de
Fotoxornalismo na Casa da Xuventude de Vigo.
Colexio de Visuña,
O Courel, Lugo.
Colexio Amor de Dios, Vigo
Colexio P?blico de
Tineo, Pontevedra
Facultad de Ciencias Politicas. Universidad de
Santiago de Compostela.
Escuela de Imagen y Sonido de VIgo
I,
II, III Seminario Fotoxornalismo Galego.
Publications
Fotoxornalismo
Galego Hoxe. (Ateneo da Coruña, 1985)
I Fotobienal de Vigo
(Canbranco, Vigo 1984)
II Fotobienal de Vigo (Centro de Estudos
fotográficos, Vigo 1986)
Ollares no Tempo (Sociedade
Fotogr?fica da Coru?a, A Coru?a 1985)
O Mar (Centro de Estudos
fotográficos, Vigo 1985)
Fotopres 1986. (La Caixa,
Barcelona)
Fotopres 1987 (La Caixa, Barcelona)
Fotopres 1992
(La Caixa, Barcelona)
Irmanamento Vigo-Porto (Centro de Estudos
fotogr?ficos, Vigo 1986)
Almanaque de fotógrafos da Galiza
(Edicións A Nosa Terra. Vigo 1986)
Galicia a pe de foto
(UIMP, A Coru?a 1987)
Libros catalogos de fotografía
arqueolóxica do Museo Qui?ones de León (Concello de
Vigo, Vigo 1988)
Runania (Estudio 34, Ourense)
Traballadoras
(Secretaria da muller. CXTG, Vigo 1990)
Vigo Retrato en vivo
(Concello de Vigo, Vigo, 1990)
Fotoxornalismo 80/90 (Diputación
de Lugo. Lugo 1991)
Cuba. (Revista El Sol. Madrid 1991)
Guerra
de Croacia (Revista El Sol. Madrid 1991)
Documentalistas (Centro
de Estudos fotográficos. Vigo 1992)
Mirando o Sur (Concello
de Oleiros 1992)
Marie Claire 16. El destino sin retorno (Cien
a?os de la mujer española. Madrid 1991)
El País.
Cumbre del V Centenario (Madrid 1992)
O Besbello. Guerra de
Croacia (Instituto Alexandre B?veda, Coia 1992)
8 Photographes
comtenporaines de Galice (Gallerie Le Lieu et le Chambre de Commerce
et de L´Industrie de Lorient. France)
Cuatro
Direcciones (Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Madrid
1992)
Afroamerica (Vigo 1992)
Outono Fotográfico
(Ourense 1992)
Revista de las Naciones Unidas para Refugiados
políticos (Géneve 1992)
Portfolio revista La
Fotografía, n 36 (Barcelona 1993)
Portfolio en last page of
Granma Internacional (La Habana 1993)
Cuba exhibition. (Caja
Madrid 1993)
Voces de Compostela n 15 (S.de Compostela
1993)
Informe da comunicación. Consello da Cultura Galega
(Compostela 1993)
30 grandes fotógrafos españoles.
Marie Claire (Madrid 1995)
Sensaci?ns. Homenaxe a Angel Llanos
(Concello de Vigo 1996)
Meridiana.
Muejeres bosnias (Junta de Andalucía 1996)
Portada de La
Fotografía (Barcelona 1996)
Galicia en Foco (Ferrol
1996)
El Progreso. Meninos de rua (Lugo 1996)
Cuba, doce e
soturna de Miguel Sande (Colección ensaio de Ed. Laiovento,
Compostela 1994)
Luzes de Galicia número 27. Kontra
faxcismo (A Coruña 1996)
Number 1 de Cadernos de
Fotoxornalismo (Vigo 1996)
Number 2 de Cadernos de Fotoxornalismo
(Vigo 1997)
La libertad de informar (Colegio de periodistas de
Barcelona 1997)
Cuaderno de trabajo de Intermón (ESO):
Guerra y Paz (Barcelona 1997)
Donación de fotografías
para Obra Benéfica Damnificados Huracán MITCH,
Guatemala. Red Cross.
TNT magazine. July issue, Cuba, 1999,
London.
25 años de Democracia en España. Colectiva.
Telefónica. Madrid
One
man exhibitions
Pub
Propaganda. Vigo, 1985
Instituto de Redondela. Redondela,
1985
Instituto de Coia Alexandre Bóveda. Vigo, 1985, 1986,
1987
Centro galego A Nosa Galiza. G?neve, 1992
Café rei
Momo. Vigo, 1992
Café Varsovia. Vigo 1992, 1993
Casa da
Cultura de Vigo. Vigo, 1993
Casa da Cultura de Malpica. Malpica,
1993
Caja Madrid. Pontevedra, 1993
Asoc. Cultural Monteblanco.
Ponteceso, 1993
Café Universal. Vigo, 1997
Facultade
de Económicas. Vigo, 1997
Retrospectiva na Casa das Artes.
Vigo, 1997
Donación de obra para subasta benéfica
damnificados huracán Mitch. Cruz Roja. Pontevedra,
1999.
Donacion de obra para subasta benéfica Cruz Roja. A
Coruña, 1999.
Photojournalism in Escola de Imaxe e Son de
Vigo. May-June
WORKSHOPS,
SEMINARS AND LECTURES
about
Photography and photojournalism
The
world longer photojournalism experience and local Galician country
photojournalists are fighting for the future of the classic and
aesthetic Black&white photography. Old masters photographers that
spent many time in your life looking for the new and modern concepts
of photography, they have been forget in many schools and
photographic programs around the world. Teach and talk about the
author's concept, building forums of discussion are one of the
multiple ways of activities for support the classic concepts of
photography. Freelancers photographers travel around the world
showing your experiences and working together with the local teachers
of photography and photographers. Just all working for don't lost the
photography art.
A
Documentary project short term one year: Cuba, 1990-1991
War
journalism: War in former Iugoslavia
A Documentary short project
one year: Meninos de rua, Salvador de Bahia. Brasil
Technical
skills: The Black&White darkroom
The Long Documentary photo
projects 14 years (Tesis): Galician exodus around the world 1983-2002
Documentary Photography helping to the Antrophology, Sociologists
and local History.
TEACHING
All
conferences, slide projections and lectures are in english, as well
in spanish or portugues languages
To photography teachers: The
activities try to support the own teacher's photography or
photojournalism course program.
The seminars could be aor are a
introduction to photojournalism cycle, subjet.
Workshops look for
the student participation all the time.
OUTDOOR and LAB
ACTIVITIES: Some workshops required a lab area and outdoor
experience.
Films, papers, camera, is own of the each
student
Workshops fees: According with the school management or
local sindicating teachers salaries
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(c) copyright 2002-2008 Delmi Alvarez
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