26/04/2022

We present MontPhoto’s 2022 jury panel

Jury members 2022

For this 2022 edition, we are presenting the selected jury, as always, diverse and with an important variety of specialties and points of view. Combining experience and young talents.

Joining us:

Alvaro Sanz - https://www.dealvarosanz.com/

Álvaro has been a photographer and filmmaker since 1999. He has a deep love for music and nature and he is a naturally inquisitive and passionate person.
He has worked on international campaigns as a photographer and director for Coca-Cola, Volkswagen, Fanta, Sprite, Olympus, LandRover, McCallan, Vodafone, and many others.
He is the founder of “Expedición Polar” (Polar expedition), a photographic community founded in 2010 where he gives workshops and courses all over the planet. Álvaro has led photographic expeditions with thousands of people to places like Lombok, Lofoten Islands, United States, Finland, Morocco.
As a director of documentaries, his greatest passion, he has directed “Hoy es primavera; Horizonte norte” (Today is spring; North horizon) where he tells us the story of his friend Juan Sisto, who traveled from the south of Chile to Alaska on his bicycle or “La Cumbre es el camino” (The summit is the path) where he accompanies three boys with intellectual disabilities to the Ama Dablam base camp and the Everest during “Alex Txikon's 2020 winter expedition”.
In 2021 Álvaro partners with Folch Studio and becomes the CEO of Eldorado Outdoor Creative Agency.

Lara Jackson - https://www.larawildlife.co.uk/
 
Lara is a conservation biologist and award-winning wildlife photographer whose research has taken her all over the world.
Using her camera as a voice for the voiceless, Lara believes that raising conservation awareness and starting conversations about the state of the planet is crucial to the future of thousands of species. She is determined to spread the message far and wide through her photographs, sharing the stories of species on the brink of extinction and those who work tirelessly to conserve them.
To see more of Lara's work and hear conservation stories from around the world, visit her Instagram account @lara_wildlife.


Joan de la Malla - http://www.joandelamalla.com
 
Joan de la Malla (Barcelona, 1982) is a photographer specialising in nature, local communities and the environment, and a biologist specialising in organisms and systems. He currently focuses his efforts on conservation issues, working with national and international organisations helping to spread the research and conservation work they carry out to safeguard the future of threatened species and their habitats.
He has worked for various organisations and for national and international media and his photographs regularly appear in a large number of books and publications such as National Geographic, Geo, Mongabay, Conservation Letters or Lonely Planet among many others. His work has been exhibited around the world individually and in collective shows. He currently contributes to spread the work of several organisations working in conservation, such as International Animal Rescue, Global Change and Conservation, Jakarta Animal Aid Network or Africa Conservation Center among others. Likewise, he frequently collaborates with the scientific communication agency “Incognita Agency” in the preparation of his audiovisual projects.

Jennifer Hayes - https://underseaimagesinc.com/

Jennifer Hayes is an aquatic biologist and photojournalist. She has specialised mainly in the conservation and documentation of marine environments. She has collaborated on a multitude of underwater photography projects: from the Okavango Delta in Botswana, to the iceberg-filled fjords of Greenland. Jennifer Hayes is a contributing photographer and speaker for National Geographic Partners. Jennifer is an aquatic biologist who has focused her career to photojournalism specialising in natural history, conservation, and documentation of marine and freshwater environments. She and her partner, David Doubilet, collaborate on assignments from the equator to the polar ice cap.
Jennifer has turned her love of science into storytelling, working with scientists from around the world to share her stories. Jennifer is an award-winning photographer, contributor to numerous global publications, and author/contributor of books on marine environments.


Marco Ronconi - https://www.marcoronconi.com/

Marco is a nature and wildlife photographer specialising in Nordic wildlife and landscapes.
He was born in 1984 and resides in northern Italy. Fine art prints of him have been exhibited in galleries and pictures of him have appeared in magazines across Europe.
His photographic vision focuses on capturing suggestions and emotions using light and elements such as snow, ice and fog. He tries to celebrate the pristine beauty of a landscape or the fleeting encounter with wildlife, with simplicity, giving as much importance to what is not seen as to the imagination. His approach to nature photography is more artistic and philosophical than scientific.

For him, photography is not about a specific environment or an animal species, but rather about the way in which those opposing elements, such as dark and light or empty and full spaces, relate to each other creating a subtle suggestion. but very strong. In 2020 he created his own publishing house, "Editorial Kamui", to distribute his projects.