Delmi Alvarez

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BIO
Delmi Alvarez grew up in Vigo, and studied high school. Early He began to work as electrician man by day to pay studies and by nigth goes to the institute of Coia to finish the elementary Bachelor. He did try to follow studies of History and Geography in the University but interrupted it by traveling Canary Islands, working as temporary photographer, selling tickets for clubs in the street supporting himself. Later he went to London to study english working as bar tender, gardener and photojournalist as part-time jobs for AP, AFP and REUTERS agencies. Once he come backs to Galicia gaves workshops of photojournalism in small villages and faculties. He began the long term documentary project Galegos na Diaspora to show the Exodus of the galicians around the world. He traveled around the all continents. Actually he lives in the diaspora in Riga, Latvia from 2002.

In 1991 spent one year in Cuba working in a documentary project about the life of the cubans (Cuba, el ultimo bastion , la lucha de un pueblo). Later in Barceolna, his work was recognized with a Fotopres prize. 

During the next years Delmi follow working in his long term project of the Galician exodus around the world, traveling by Europa, Asia and Oceania, both Americas and Africa. This project never was recognized in Galicia, his mother land and in 2002 he decides live in Latvia, to work with more freedom and his projects. Always have on mind like many thousands of galicians in the diaspora come back to the Terra (land) and live, work and show the new generations of photojournalists the not easy way to be a eyewitness in the world. 

From 1190 till 1993 he covered the Yugoslavia war as correspondent for La Voz de Galicia newspaper sending pictures and texts. This experience gave to him a personal opinion about the conflicts in the world and after lost a few friends photographes he decides don't cover more the wars.

As a filmmaker, he has worked as a cameraman and director/producer. Recent work includes credits on "O rei galego de Africa" for the TVG network (Namibia,2007/08). In progress is the project Galcian Diaspora with more chapters. 

Résumé
Photojournalist; Photo Editor; Page Editor designer; Photojournalism workshops in Galicia, Goteborg, Riga, La Habana, San Salvador de Bahia Faculty of Journalism, and other seminars. 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. Filmmaker, producer and director.

2009
November. Filming documentary daily life photojournalist Ami Vitale, Miami, Florida.
October 2009. Filming documentary first part of Himba people in North Namibia.
Washington DC. November 2009. Presentation-lecture in Library of Congress the porject Galegos na Diaspora 1989-2009.
June-July. Filming documentary with Arturo Lezcano in coproduction for TVG (Galician TV broadcast) in Venezuela.
On assignment for book of Siemens technology in Riga and Stockholm.
On Assignment in riga, Latvia for Getty Images, Oracle magazine.
New York. November 2009. Presentation-lecture in CUNY University the project Galegos na Diaspora 1989-2009
Filming documentary Fuga de cerebros: Paris, Stockholm, Koln, Berlin.
Novermber 2009. Filming in Birmingham, Alabama, second part of Fuga de cerebros.
December/January. Travel around USA, Republica Dominicana, Panama, Chile. Project Galegos na Diáspora.
Congress The Age of the Arctic, Tromso. Norway.
Printing book Galegos na Diaspora. 570 pages, balck and white. Secretaria de Emigracion, Xunta de Galicia.
Member of IFJ. International Federation of journalists.

2007-08
Join to Global Assignments/Getty Images as photographer represented
Film maker in Namibia. Broadcast: O rei galego de Africa (TVG) 50'. HDV.and mini DV
Arctic, climate change and perspectives of life. Project in progress.
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.
MAR, a book with the partiipation of MAGNUM photographers Ian Berry, Richard Kalvar and galicians Xulio Villarino and 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 Anos de Resistencia Indigena "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
Seminar Faculty of Journalism of Stradinja University, Riga, Latvia
Colexio Peleteiro, Santiago de Compostela
Seminars of Photojournalism, Talsi, Latvia, 15th may, 2003 and 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.
Curso de 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 Publico 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
Galegos na Diaspora 1989-2009. Book in black and white. Documentary, 570 pages. Xunta de Galicia, 2009.
Collective Ferrol en Foco 2007
Collective Galicia en Foco, 2007
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)
Sensacions. 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
Buenos Aires, Galegos na Diaspora. 
Montevideo, Galegos na Diaspora
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

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