Armando Vega

National Geographic Explorer

Ciudad de México, CDMX, México

Armando Vega is a documentary photographer and National Geographic Explorer. He was born in northern Mexico and studied civil engineering but in 2012 he gave up everything to dedicate his life to photography. Passionate about culture and the environment, he is currently working on a project related to climate change in the Andes of Peru. In 2017 he photographed one of the largest Andean pilgrimages which led him to obtain in 2018 the National Geographic Early Career Grant. He has photographed remote communities in the Sierra Tarahumara of Mexico even in paleontological expeditions in search of dinosaurs in the Patagonia of Chile and Argentina. He has been published in National Geographic, Foreign Policy, The Nation, Gatopardo, among others. He has won national photographic competitions and participated in two books published in Mexico: in one of them as co-editor and iconographic researcher of the earthquake on September 19, 2017 in Mexico City published by the Senate of the Republic. Additionally, he has exhibited his work in Australia, Colombia, Germany, Guatemala, Italy and Mexico. He was selected to photograph the total solar eclipse in Chile from the National Geographic plane in July 2019.

2019 - National Geographic Explorer, 2017 - International Photography Festival ERRANTE, 2016 - Mas de 43 - MasterPeace, 2015 - Hilando la Memoria - CONACULTA, 2015 - Mezclando Tradiciones, 2014 - Mezclando Tradiciones

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Portrait of Dionicio Ortega, 55, and Juana Maldonado, 50, overlooking the town of Tlapa de Comonfort in southern Mexican state of Guerrero. They are the parents of Claudio Ortega Maldonado, a Mexican migrant who died of Covid-19 in a New York City hospital on April 22nd at the age of 29. Ortega and Maldonado last saw their son 12 years ago and are seen waiting for his ashes to return.

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After breakfast and a night's rest at Casa Betania, a group of Honduran migrants set out on the train tracks heading for the United States.

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A family after the activities of the day watches television. Mountain of Guerrero, Mexico. Una familia después de las actividades del día mira televisión. Montaña de Guerrero, México.