User:Miguel Gomez - Photographer

http://www.miguelgomez.net/ Dominican-Spanish photojournalist based in Spain where lives since 2005, before worked for the Associated Press in Dominican Republic and the newspapers Listín Diario and El Caribe covering riots, sports, spot news, political summits, etc. and made some collaborations with American newspapers as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, Star-Telegram among others. Also worked for magazine UNO and Oh! Magazine and for the Publishing House of Magazines that included publications on fashion, architecture, education, etc. For five years he was a correspondent for the Costa Rican publishing group Red-Castle Group focused on economic and tourist magazines. In Spain he worked for Associated Press and Grupo Vocento (La Voz De Cádiz) and as a freelance regular contributor to several publications.

He received a scholarship from the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano – FNPI, (New Iberoamerican Journalism Foundation) to develop and teach a photojournalism workshop in Guayaquil, Ecuador and similar ones in Dominican, Spain and Argentina. He won the prize Journalistic Excellence Arturo J. Pellerano Alfau among others photography and he has been part of several individuals and collectives exhibitions as well as audiovisual projects and books. He has worked in different places of the world developing commissions and reportages or giving continuity to personal projects.

He teaches photoworkshops and consultancies on political photography. His photos have been published in some of the most important newspaper and magazines and has been the subject of several awards. At the moment he lives in Cadiz to the south of Spain a coastal city and in an enviable geographical enclave from where he moving to anywhere.