Speakers

We would like to present some of our most outstanding speakers. Through them, The Photo Week stands out as a unique event and a unique way of approaching photography.

Thomas Heaton, photographer and speaker in the Canarian Photo Week 2023

Thomas Heaton

Thomas Heaton is a landscape photographer who documents his work through videos on his Youtube channel. Thomas enjoys shooting both digital and film, finding joy in all mediums. His digital work allows him to work fast and conveniently, reacting to the landscape around him as the light changes in a matter of seconds. His analogue photography allows Thomas to slow down and work within the limitations of film and connect more with the elements around him.

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Thomas has garnered over half a million subscribers to his YouTube channel, which intimately documents his photography in the landscape. He has published 2 landscape photography books and recently had the honour of working with renowned film director, Alex Garland on his latest film “Men”.

Thomas has a true love for the visual arts and the great outdoors.

 

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Kilian Schönberger

Born in 1985 in Bavaria, near the German Czech border, Kilian grew up in the vast forests along the former Iron Curtain.

Even as a child he was interested in nature and spent almost every day long hours outdoors in the forest. After finishing school, Kilian spent a year in the Bavarian Alps and then began studying geography in Bonn, the old capital. Field trips with the university took him to Switzerland, Egypt, Norway, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands between 2006 and 2010. During these trips, Kilian discovered digital photography as an optimal tool for blending the geography and visual experience of wild landscapes.

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Little by little landscape photography became more and more important for the geographer. After finishing university in 2012, Kilian started working as a full-time freelance photographer with a clear specialization in landscape photography.

His education as a geographer and his life experience in some of the most impressive landscapes in the world give his photographs an especially delicate character.

Kilian has published nine books on landscape photography. He has also worked for different tourist boards and companies like Adobe and his photos have been published in many newspapers and magazines around the world. He at the same time has extensive experience in workshops and other training practices.









Isabella Tabacchi

Isabella Tabacchi

Isabella Tabacchi is an award winning landscape photographer based in Bologna in Italy, internationally recognized for her evocative, emotional, and dreamlike photographic style.

Isabella received Hasselblad Heroine award in 2021, has been part of the Grand Jury of the Hasselblad Masters 2021, since 2018 is in the jury of Epson International Pano Awards, received the title of Photographer of the Year in Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA), third price in the International Landscape Photographer of the year 2020, Milky Way Photographer of the year and several other awards since 2016.

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Fotografía de Nestor Rodan, fotógrafo

Nestor Rodan

Néstor is a landscape photographer by vocation, photographic travel guide and creator of multimedia content.

He began as a cameraman for a local television station while he was studying in his hometown León. Years later, he started in digital photography with a Canon and since then he hasn’t stopped photographing, traveling, and teaching.

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Néstor is one of the photographers who best knows the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, developing multiple workshops and activities on the coast, in the forest or in the high mountains.

Likewise, his great passion is extreme travel and, mostly in cold climates. His photographs of Lake Baikal, Greenland, Iceland, Lofoten Islands, Lapland, etc… show his admiration and love for these places.

Apart from various commercial photographic works, Néstor is currently developing as an international guide and trainer on trips around the world, with special emphasis on Arctic areas.

Néstor remains loyal to the brand and philosophy of his first Canon camera, a brand of which he is an ambassador, but at the same time uses all the technology and means available to capture the best possible photographs, in particular Drones.

He has been awarded several national and international prizes and enjoys a recognized prestige among photographic associations and the many attendees of his trips and courses.













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Javier Alonso Torre

Javier Alonso Torre is based in north of Spain, he’s a great expert of the terrain and specializes in forest and coastal photography and filter management. The passion for nature and photography have always been present in him, although not together. He started with analog photography from the hand of his father. It was during his years living in the Canary Islands that he began in artistic photography, still analog. He then continues with digital photography, but in his images, you can see that exquisite care for details and composition so characteristic of him. An art probably rooted in the procedures of analog photography.

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A great lover and protector of nature. In his imaginary, names from his immediate surroundings standout such as Isabel Diez and Asier Castro, and other great international photographers such as Galen Rowell and José B. Ruiz.

Javier has extensive experience as a trainer and photographic guide. He has traveled to several national destinations such as the Cantabrian Coast, the Pyrenees, Andalusia and Levante. In addition to international destinations such as Tuscany, Black Forest, Lofoten, Iceland and Scotland.

He is also a member of Portfolio Natural (nature author photography). Javier has received awards and special mentions in several photography contests in different fields, both nationally and internationally. He has besides published in magazines such as National Geographic Travel, Wild Vision and Iris.

Javier Alonso Torres has taken part in several collective books on nature photography, such as Inspirats per la natura (2011), Naturaleza Ibérica (2012), Inspirats per la natura (2013), Naturaleza Ibérica. Also in Four seasons of life (2016), Natural Paradises, a creative vision (2018). And he has published alone the photographic books Nature speaks (2015)and photographing the Cantabrian Sea (2019). In 2021 he published The art of photographing nature (2021).

















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Luis Miguel Azorín

Luis Miguel is the content creator behind the Youtube channel Natural Portraits, a project dedicated to natural photography in its broadest sense.

With a restless mind and a great lover of the natural world, since he was a child, he was fascinated by everything around him. From the world of the smallest, the macro and extreme macro world, to the largest and most distant, the Universe.

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In 2004 part of these concerns lead to the development of one of the photographic disciplines that he is most passionate about: astrophotography, becoming specialized in the branch of planetary astrophotography.

As of 2016 was the turn of the branch of deep sky astrophotography, in addition to other natural disciplines such as macro photography or landscape photography, all of which was the origin of the Natural Portraits project.

Luis Miguel is currently an active trainer in several photographic disciplines that he works through the Natural Portraits project.

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Justo Gómez

Coordinador

Justo Gómez is the director-coordinator of the events included in the CanarianPhotoAwards/CanarianPhotoWeek.

Justo is the co-creator of the idea of ​ holding an event based on the values ​​of ecology and sustainability in the Canary Archipelago, an area to which he constantly travels carrying out photographic projects.

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Trained in photography with the best landscape photographers in Spain, his unconditional love for photography has led him to abandon his carrer in the financial world and dedicate to photographic projects and trips to destinations as diverse as Iceland, Norway, or Siberia.

He currently develops several creative projects using multiple tools such as drones, stabilizers, and latest generation mirrorless cameras.

“I am delighted to be able to combine the skills developed in my career in the financial world and my passion for photography with the organization of the CPA and CPW. It is something that I am enjoying enormously, and I intend that everyone who participates in it enjoys it equally”.

We have two high-profile speakers on standby in case they are needed.