Spanish born Daniel Beltrá is a world-renowned photographer
living in Seattle, Washington (USA).
Daniel started out as a staff photographer in his native
Madrid for the Spanish National Agency EFE. After four-years there, he became
the Paris based Gamma Agency's correspondent in Spain. For a decade, he covered
hard news and feature stories for Gamma around the world. He is fluent in
English, French, and Spanish and is conversational in Portuguese from his many
trips to the Amazon.
In 1990, Daniel began his collaboration with the NGO
Greenpeace becoming one of their main freelance photographers. He has
documented expeditions to the Amazon, the Arctic, the Southern Oceans, and the
Patagonian Ice Fields.
His work has appeared in the most prominent international
publications.
Daniel brings the sensibility and craft of a news
photographer to the fields of nature and the environment, making images, which
inspire greater respect and conservation of our planet.Shown in large format these images have
the beauty and composition of fine art while telling a vital story.
Since 2001 Daniel has photographed the changing Amazon
rainforest, witnessing both the worst drought in living memory and one of the
Amazon River’s most extensive floods. He has documented the burning of
thousands of acres of untouched rainforest.Daniel’s photographs inspire an enhanced appreciation of
this primeval forest and the plants, animals and people that depend on it.
In 2006 and 2007 Daniel was awarded at the World Press Photo
and the China International Press Photo Contest, for his work on the Amazon
drought. In 2008 he received the Global Vision Award from the Pictures of the
Year International Competition.
Daniel is a fellow of the International League of
Conservation Photographers.
On April 16, 2009 Daniel Beltrá won the Prince’s Rainforests
Project Award. This Project, founded by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales,
recognizes the global role played by rainforests in climate change and aims to
achieve consensus about how the rate of deforestation might be slowed and
stopped.Tom Stoddart, Chair of
the Award Judging Committee said: “For over two decades Daniel’s cameras have
highlighted man’s devastating impact on the planet by depicting the destruction
of ancient forests, peoples, oceans, species and the ozone layer.His passion and talent to inform in
tandem with his artistic eye, makes him the perfect recipient of this most
prestigious and important award.”
