Guillermo Cervera

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Guillermo Cervera
Born1968
Madrid, Spain
NationalitySpanish
OccupationFreelance photojournalist
Known forPhotography (war, social issues, surf)

Guillermo Cervera Calonje (born in Madrid 1968, Spain) is a freelance photojournalist. He is known for documenting subjects such as conflicts, social issues, and surfing. [ citation needed ]

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His photographs are regularly published in The New York Times, Newsweek, Marie Claire, The Guardian, Paris Match, Rolling Stone, La Vanguardia, ABC and El Mundo , EL Pais, National Geographic Adventure and have been exhibited in galleries in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain and New York.[ citation needed ]

Early career

Growing up in Madrid, Spain, Guillermo Cervera first discovered photography when he found a box filled with Playboy magazines his father had brought from the United States. “Then my father learned what I was doing and he emptied the box of Playboys and replaced them with National Geographic," Cervera said in an interview with Lens – The New York Times' blog. [1] It was in those old magazines that he first was dazzled by pictures of surfing.

Initially his family rejected the idea to become a photographer and he was sent to the United States to study aerospace engineering. [2] While in college, he went on learning photography. In 1993, at a friend's suggestion, he agreed to go to Bosnia to cover the conflict in Bosnia to cover the conflict. [ citation needed ]

Major works

Bosnia War

In 1993 Guillermo decided to travel to Bosnia with Alfonso de Senillosa to photograph the conflict for Epoca Magazine. [3]

Surfing

Over the last few years, in between conflicts Cervera photographs surfers as a way to cope with the stress and trauma that accompanied those assignments. He regularly publishes in surf photography journals

ications of this subject. [4]

Libya conflict

In April 2011, he was with photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros during a mortar attack in Misrata, Libya. Tim Hetherington and Hondros were killed. [5]

In Chad, it was from a brief — though harrowing — detention, where he was threatened with torture.

Bye bye Kabul

Since 2008 Cervera has worked primarily in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he has worked embedded on long term projects on the daily life of the Taliban, and the economic force of the Western arms market. [6] He has been the first Spanish photographer who published a cover pictured in Newskweek. [7] The picture was a Taliban portrait and it was selected by Newsweek as one of the covers of the Year in 2011. [8] In 2013 he presented at Virreina LAB, Barcelona, "Bye-Bye Kabul", an exhibition of 49 photographs taken over a four-year period in Kabul, Afghanistan. [9]

Ukraine

Since the beginning of the uprising in Ukraine, Cervera has been covering the different events in the country focusing his work in the daily life of the Ukrainian people. His work has been published in MSNBC. [10] [11]

The Circle

The Circle is a documentary about Guillermo Cevera travelling the world on a sailboat. [ citation needed ]

Trade Arms Market

A serial of reportages about the Arms market and his father who is an arms dealer. [ citation needed ]

National Geographic

The past years until now, Cervera is collaborating with National Geographic (@natgeoadventure) publishing images in the Instagram of @natgeoadventure weekly. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ 1. "Trading War for Waves", by David Gonzalez. Lens blog, The New York Times. 28 October 2011.
  2. ↑ 3. "Guillermo Cervera: Un outsider del fotoperiodismo". VICE. 2013.
  3. ↑ ""
  4. ↑ "Danger Close", by Alex Wilson. Surfer Magazine. March 2013.
  5. ↑ "Renowned war filmmaker, prize-winning photojournalist killed in Libya". NBC News. April 2011.
  6. ↑ "You have the watches, we have the time". Newsweek. October 2, 2011.
  7. ↑ "El fotoperiodista Guillermo Cervera, portada de Newsweek Archived 2014-03-27 at the Wayback Machine ". La Vanguardia, 19 October 2011.
  8. ↑ "AFGHANISTAN - Ten Years of War in a Land Where Your Enemy Will Fight You Forever". Newsweek. Page 1. Oct 6, 2011)
  9. ↑ "Guillermo Cervera: Bye Bye Kabul, exhibition. Online programa. La Virreina, February 2013.
  10. ↑ "". MSNBC, 25 March 2014.
  11. ↑ "". TIME, LightBox.
  12. ↑ "". National Geographic.
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