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Guillem Valle

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Profession: Photographer
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Home base: Barcelona
Email: •••••••• (private)
Languages spoken: Catalan, Spanish, English, French
Organization: Sipa Press, NY
Journal: http://www.guillemvalle.com
Skype: Guillemvalle guillemvalle
Mobile phone: +34 606 990 687
Last login: 2 months ago
Member since: 21 Nov 2006 09:11

About

I was born in Barcelona in 1983 and became interested in documentary photography at the age of 14 when I travelled to Sarajevo on an art student exchange program.
At age of 16 I started to work as a freelance photographer for local newspapers.

My first international story was about the anti-globalization movement’s response and demonstrations during the G8 summit of 2001 in Genoa. While still a student at the Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya, I travelled to Palestine on two occasions between 2001 and 2004, to photograph the Palestinian Intifada. I started to work with El País in 2003, all the while maintaining a personal agenda, developing a body of documentary work on socials issues here in Spain. Since 2006 I have gone to Lebanon to cover such themes as: the war between Israel and Shiite militia Hezbollah and the conflict between Fatah Al-Islam and the Lebanese army in Northern Lebanon. These images mark the beginning of my collaboration with Sipa Press New York as a distributed photographer. In the course of 2008 I have covered Kosovo independence, as well as beginning a body of work on the PKK in Northern Iraq and the Uygur minority of the Xinjiang region of North-western China. Over the years I have combined my work as a photographer with the practice of Aikido and playing the drums in a rock band.

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Any photographer in Sri Lanka?

Hi everyone,
I come to ask if is there any photographer, TV camera or journalist working in Sri Lanka?
I’m planign to go there but I got very little info about working there.

Any answer will be appreciated.
Thanks.

19 May 2009 07:05 | 3 replies

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