Alejandro Martinez Velez
Madrid, Spain
Alejandro Martínez Vélez, 1991, is a freelance photojournalist currently based in Madrid.
He began his photography training at Lens School of Visual Arts, combining it with his university studies in Political Sciences (Complutense Univesity of Madrid). His work focuses especially on the effects of the economic crisis in Spain and he is currently documenting the exodus of hundreds of thousands of people to Europe.
His pictures have been exhibited in different cities like Madrid, Moscow, Istanbul, Shanghai, Warsaw, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Budapest, Mexico City or Beirut.
Available for assignments.
2018 - Enrique Meneses Photojournalism Award, 2017 - Manos Unidas Prize for Photojournalism, 2017 - Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest, 2017 - Prize "For Humanitarian Photography" by ICRC, 2017 - Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest, 2017 - Images of International Cooperation
- Breaking news
- Conflict
- Corporate
- Crisis
- Editorial
- Entertainment
- Environment
- Interview
- Portrait