Luis Carballo
Lyon, France
I have long experience in producing medium and long format magazines and documentaries and making on-the-ground reports for TV. Special coverage of the second Palestinian Intifada in 2000, Israel-Hizbullah war in 2006, the Israeli operation Cast Lead in 2008 in Gaza, the earthquake in January 12th 2010 in Haiti, the Arab Spring in Egypt and Libya in 2011 and the war between Israel and Hamas in November 2012, the funeral of Hugo Chávez in Caracas in 2013, the funeral of Ariel Sharon in Israel in 2014, Pope Francis visit to Palestine and Israel in 2014, mission embedded with the Chadian Army in March-April 2015 during the offensive against Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria (Chad, Niger and Nigeria) and liberation of Malam Fatori in Northern Nigeria. This report was highly commended by the international jury during the AIB Awards 2015 in London. I am specialised in hostile environment coverages.
I am also the founder and general manager of the international photo agency Gran Angular, based in Barcelona, Spain. The agency provided until 2014 images covering varied matters to leading international newspapers and magazines, for example :The Times, Newsweek, Time, The Guardian, The Independent, El País, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Il Corriere della Sera, El Mundo, Vanity Fair magazine, The New Yorker, etc. The agency had 500 contributing photographers all around the world. The agency had partnerships with 20 international photo agencies. I am myself a skilled photojournalist with 20 years of experience. I do travel photography too.
2015 - Highly commended in the AIB Awards in London
- Audio capture
- Audio editing
- Breaking news
- Conflict
- Interview
- Landscape
- Military embed
- Reporting
- Video capture
- Video editing
- Arabic
- Hebrew
- French
- English
- Spanish