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Delmi Álvarez (born 1958) is a Galician photojournalist and independent filmmaker. Alvarez' interests include documentary of social affairs, environment, human rights and visual ethnography & anthropology. He began his professional career in 1983 in the middle of social worker conflicts and documenting Vigo and Galicia. In 1990, he lived in La Habana till 1992, documenting the life of cubans in the ''Periodo especial en tiempos de paz''. ==Photography career== Delmi Alvarez documented between 1990 and 1991 the life of the Cubans during ''Plan Especial en Periodo de Paz'', in a project: (''Cuba, el ultimo bastion: la lucha de un pueblo.'' ) For this photo essay, he received the FOTOPRESS award in Barcelona. He covered the conflict in Yugoslavia (1991–1993). He published a book on the fighting and aftermath (''Reporteiro de guerra en Iugoslavia''). He was a guest lecturer and speaker in universities and schools, discussing the importance of visual story telling, documentary photography and photojournalism. He wrote several books and one long term project ''Galegos na Diáspora, 1989-2009'' about Galicians who migrated around the world. He gave presentations at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, in 2009 and at the City University of New York (CUNY). Delmi organized and curated several projects of photography with international photographers and others in cooperation with Ian Berry and Richard Kalvar. In 2012 his project (''Photo Youth'' ) started in Riga, Pskov, Vyborg and St. Petersburg for young people with special needs. The project got a grant from European Union to be developed between 2012 and 2013 with Russia and Latvia as partners participating more than 250 children with disabilities, blind, deaf, schools and teachers. In 1989, he began a long term project about (''Camino de Santiago'' ) involving 13 photographers. They created a documentary exploring the ancient pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela with an exhibition running from Copenhagen to Japan or São Paulo, sponsored by the Galician government. As a filmmaker Delmi produced three broadcast documentaries from an ethnographic and anthropological perspective stories of life of persons living in the Galician diaspora in Africa, Venezuela and Russia based in the book (''Galegos na Diáspora 1989-2009'' ). He lives in Brussels working as editorial and news photojournalist for ZUMAPRESS News Wire Service and a contributor with Corbis. In 2013, Delmi began a long term documentary photographic project about gold mining in Europe called "In the name of Gold." In 2014 began a degree in Anthropology. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Delmi Álvarez」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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