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Daniel Beltra is a Spanish photographer based in Seattle. For over two decades he has brought the sensibility of a news photographer to the fields of nature and the environment. His powerful images of our changing planet have appeared in magazines and newspapers around the world.
In 1990, Daniel began a collaboration with Greenpeace International, becoming one of their key assignment photographers and covering some of the world’s most pressing ecological issues. Over the past seven years, in several journeys throughout the Amazon, he has documented drought, flood and deforestation in clear and telling images. Daniel spends up to eight months each year in the field. On four separate Arctic expeditions he was a frontline observer of climate change. In the Patagonian Ice Fields at the tip of South America he created the iconic image of the disappearing glacier shown in the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth – six more of his images are included in Al Gore’s multimedia presentation. His striking aerial images are amongst some of the world’s most compelling environmental documents.
TIME, Business Week, Der Spiegel, Geo, Paris Match and Stern have all featured Daniel's images. They have also appeared in many of the world’s leading newspapers, amongst them: The New York Times, The Financial Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Guardian, Le Monde, Le Figaro, El Pais, El Corriere de la Sera and Asahi Shimbun. Exhibitions of Daniel’s photography have been held in Turkey, China and in Spain. He has presented his work at the International Center of Photography in New York and has been a guest speaker at the China Film Academy in Beijing. His photographs have also appeared on the cover of a number of books, the latest being, The Earth Then And Now by Fred Pearce, 2007 and Planet Ocean by Sara Holden, 2007.
It was while studying Biology at the Universidad Complutense in his native Madrid, that Daniel began working on staff as a news photographer for EFE - the Spanish National Agency. After four years there, he accepted an offer from Gamma Agency in Paris to be its correspondent in Spain and for a decade he covered news and produced feature stories for Gamma.
In 2006, Daniel's photographs of the Amazon drought were honored with a World Press Photo prize and also with a Golden Award in the China International Press Photo Contest (CHIPP).
In 2007, he won another World Press Photo prize for his work on Amazon deforestation. That same summer, he received a Special Nomination from The International Forum on Drought held in Seville, Spain for his contribution to conservation.
Recently, Daniel was invited to become a member of the prestigious International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP).
Daniel has lived with his wife, Shoshana, in Seattle for the past seven years. A native speaker of Spanish, Daniel is also fluent in English and French and conversant in Portuguese.
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Daniel Beltrá
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