My Biography
Javier has studied Art Edition in Spain and has worked in the graphic and web design area as well as in fine arts reproduction with traditional methods: engraving, lithography, serigraphy, reprography…
In August 2006, he decided to leave his job in Spain and travel to Africa for discovering new cultures and different mentalities. He has lived in Ethiopia and Senegal, but also has travelled to Gambia, Djibouti and Morocco. In Ethiopia and Senegal he was working as a Spanish and IT teacher meanwhile he was involved in some projects like a volunteer, giving service in a prison, a centre of women with HIV/AIDS, children with problems, homeless… and he also has promoted some awareness projects in Africa and Europe.
He took advantage of living in Africa to get involved in some photographic projects, sharing his pics with NGOs and magazines and even had been hired to manage some photo journals.
At the end of 2009 he went back to Spain where he took part in some photo exhibitions and conferences about Africa. He is the co-organizator of the project “Women through the border”: a series of cultural activities that aim to bring the audience closer to the experience of a group of Senegalese women currently living in Spain. At the heart of the project is a photo exhibit that traces the routes these women have followed from in their home towns and cities in Senegal to the new homes they have made for themselves in Spain.
Javier is a Spanish speaker with some knowledge of english, french, italian and some african languages like Wolof or Amharic.
My Recent Activity
- I added: Ogote: the hand of the FGC in Ethiopia.
to Photo Stories on September 17, 2010 - I added: El Circo Abissinia
to Photo Stories on August 06, 2010 - I added: Una boda de una toubap en Senegal
to Photo Stories on July 26, 2010 - I added: Javi’s Portfolio
to Galleries on July 26, 2010
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