13/08/2013

JURY MONTPHOTO 2013

SADIE QUARRIER

Sadie Quarrier is a Sr. Photo Editor at National Geographic Magazine where she is in charge of adventure and expedition stories. She also edits a diverse range of other stories, most recently Paul Nicklen’s Emperor Penguins, Mattias Klum’s Venom, Brent Stirton’s Ivory Trade, and Yasuni National Park (5 photographers). In addition, she is a voting member on the National Geographic Society's Expeditions Council and Young Explorer's Grant Committee, both of which fund a variety of media-driven projects.  An energetic and dedicated editor, Sadie started working at the Geographic in 1992, left to work as a Photo Editor and Designer at Smithsonian Magazine in 1998, and returned a few years later as a Photo Editor for NG Books where she helped produce over a dozen books, two of which received national awards. Two years later she returned to NGM as a Sr. Photo Editor and has won half a dozen awards for her editing.

SEBASTIÁN ALVARO

Sebastián Álvarois creator of legendary “Al filo de lo imposible” program during decades. The program, and historic of Spanish televisión, is the only one televisión program all over the world, who has recorded the 14 peaks of more tan 8000 meters high on Earth and arrived to two Poles of the planet.

He has directed two series for television: “De cero a ocho mil “ (From zero to eight thousand) and “La tierra que heredamos” (The earth that we inherit).

Sebastian is writer, adventurer and photographer, actually columnist of sporting newspaper As2 and has a section of adventure and risk sports in “El larguero” radio program of Cadena Ser directed by José Ramón de la Morena.

Their documentaries have obtained important awards and been internationally rated. In 2006 Sebastian was awarded with Spanish National Award of Sport

EVA VAN DEN BERG

Eva is specialized in directing and managing the creation of publications, from the beginning to the end. Generating enough documentation and editing audiovisuals with educational purposes.

From 13 years ago she divulges scientific and environmental subjects for magazines, newspapers, books and documentaries, for adults and young people. Recently she has participated in different conferences. She is interested in environmental education, directed to all public.

From 1998 she works as editor and writer in Spanish edition of National Geographic. She programs creational aspects related to articles prepared from NG-USA, hallmark of this edition.

Author of five books of children’s book about endangered animals, “Friends of Dodo”.

Apart from her actual work, it’s always prepared to coordinate and publish books, adults or child ones (including tales and educational texts), related specially on science and environmental education.

JARI PELTOMÄKI

Jari is director of Finnature, Finland’s leading wildlife tour operator and a professional wildlife photographer and he lives in Liminka, Finland. Jari has been taking photographs over 35 years, and he turned professional about 15 years ago. Bird photography is his passion and his main interest are owls and he is known as “owlman” of Finland. His photo library includes other wildlife as well, taken both in Finland and abroad.

His work is being used worldwide and he has co-published several books of birds and photography. Since 2007, Jari has chaired the Professional Nature Photographers of Finland. His photographs are regularly awarded in international competitions: including Wildlife Photographer of the Year several times, where he was also in final judging panel in 2012 competition.

He is founding member of Friends of Liminka Bay association. There he has established annual Bird photo festival of Liminka Bay and international Liminka Bay Birdphoto Competition.

Jari has been Nikon ambassador since 2012.

NIALL BENVIE

Niall (Arbroath, Scotland, 1964), after an earlier career as a fruit farmer, has worked as a photographer and writer for 20 years, with a special interest in the nature/culture dynamic. He has travelled extensively in Europe covering stories as diverse as the European lynx reintroduction in Germany, the peat extraction issues in the Baltic States and deer management in his native Scotland. He is the author and illustrator of six books, including Outdoor Photography Masterclass and Caledonia: Scotland's heart of pine (with Pete Cairns), has published more than half a million words in articles and books and is a regular speaker at photography conferences at home and abroad.
Niall is a founding Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP), and a founding Director of Wild Wonders of Europe. With American photographer Clay Bolt, he founded Meet Your Neighbours in 2009, which aims to use photography to build a worldwide network of advocates for local biodiversity.

DAVID BARRIO

He discovered the underwater photography (and diving) when he was living in Canarias around thirteen years ago. At the beginning he dived without camera, enjoying a lot so he didn’t need to by one until he thought, during a trip to Galapagos Islands, that he needed one to keep good souvenirs of that trip. One thing led to another and he finished inside this world.

To him, the underwater photography has been, and is, a sustainable way to enjoy the nature, knowing parts of this planet that he couldn’t have been able to know without this work and finding lots of new friends. Besides, he had the luck to start competing and having more success than what he had ever thought.

He has won important and different national and international awards.

His web is http://www.davidbarrio.com/