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yurianfoto2.jpg YURIAN QUINTANAS NOBEL

Residence: Cervià de Ter (SPAIN)
Lenguages: Català, Castellano, English, Nederlands
Born in Amsterdam in 1983 but I’ve been living all my life in Banyoles (Spain).After graduating as a Superior grade in Image, in 2007 I did a specialized course in photo-reportage at IDEP Barcelona. Then I had an opportunity to work as an assistant for various National Geographic photographers, thus getting a closer look into the work proceedings. From that time I started working at my own projects both photojournalism and travel photography. Gradually I’m becoming more interested in human stories away from the daily news and more related to my own view of life. Over the past four years I ‘ve won several prizes and have been awarded with scholarships like the “XIII International photojournalism meeting of Gijon”, the Magnum Photo Workshop scholarship with Chien-Chi Chang or the selection for Descubrimientos Photespaña 2012. My pictures have been published in: Burn Magazine, Foto a Foto, Descobrir Catalunya, F-Stop Magazine, Piel de Foto, Disparo and Positive Magazine.

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NEWS: The reportage about the holy mount of Grabarka (Poland) published at “F-Stop Magazine”. (10/11)
NEWS: Some pictures of ”Besalú” published at Descobrir Catalunya magazine who dedicates the section ”Mirades” to me. (09/11)
NEWS: The reportage of Grabarka published at “Piel de Foto” magazine. (05/11)
NEWS: Selected as one of the Descubrimientos PHE finalist. (02/11)
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Awards / Scholarships

2012 - Sony World Photography Awards, shortlisted.
2011 - Travel Photographer of the Year 2011, Highly Commended
2011 - Selected for Descubrimientos PHE
2010 - Montphoto, Honor Mention
2010 - Clic 2010, Selected and exhibition at Visa off (Visa pour l’Image)
2010 - Member of the Wedding Photojournalist Association
2010 - Finalist of the Youth Scholarship
2009 - Trafic09, Portfolios review selected
2009 - Scholarship, Magnum Photos workshop
2009 - Scholarship, XIII International photojournalism meeting of Gijón 2009
2008 - Montphoto, 2nd Prize & 1st Prize by popular vote
2007 - Magazine La Vanguardia, 1st Prize