About me..

Luís Artal Uriarte was born in Panama in 1960 but he moved with his father Ernesto Artal to  Massachusetts where he graduated in 1982 from Dartmouth Art College. 

In 1984 he started work as a newspaper photographer in New Mexico, and in 1986, he moved to New York to begin a career as a freelance magazine photographer. He has worked on extensive photographic essays in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, Israel, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, South Africa, Russia, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Romania, Brazil and the United States.

Luís Artal has been a contract photographer with Time Magazine since 1994. He was associated with Black Star from 1995 - 1998 and was a member of Magnum from 1986 until 2001.

He has received numerous honours such as the Common Wealth Award, Martin Luther King Award, Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award, Henry Luce Award, Robert Capa Gold Medal (five times), the World Press Photo Award (twice), Magazine Photographer of the Year (seven times), the International Center of Photography Infinity Award (three times), the Leica Award (twice), the Bayeaux Award for War Correspondents (twice), the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award, the Canon Photo essayist Award and the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Grant in Humanistic Photography. He is a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and has an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Arts.
He currently lives in Torafe a little andalusian village where he is retired from profesional journalism while exploring his artistic dimension through drawings, prints and experimental photography.
Luís Artal usually collaborates with "Miradas Digitales" a blog that analizes pieces of news and develops new narratives.