Joan de la Malla (Barcelona, 1982) is a freelance photographer focused in nature, local communities and the environment as well as a biologist, specialised in organisms and systems. At present he is devoting his efforts to conservation topics by working with national and international entities helping to raise awareness of the vital work being undertaken to safeguard the future of endangered species and their habitats. Currently he helps to spread the work of various organisations working on conservation, such as International Animal Rescue, Global Change and Conservation, Jakarta Animal Aid Network or Africa Conservation Centre among others. During the lasts years, Joan has been selected by UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere programme to document many UNESCOS’s Biosphere Reserves around the world with his images. He also collaborates frequently with the scientific communication agency Incognita Agency in the realisation of his audiovisual projects.

Joan’s images have been published several times in prestigious international media such as National Geographic, Geo, Mongabay, Conservation Letters or Lonely Planet amongst many others and his photographs illustrate a vast number of books. His work has also been exposed worldwide in diverse individual and collective exhibitions.

His photographs have been awarded several times in prestigious international contests including, for instance, winner images in the NHM Wildlife Photographer of the Year (2023, 2018), in the GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year (2018), or in Montphoto (2015, 2021) and he has received dozens of honorific mentions in the same competitions and in many others.

Joan also combines his professional activity with other disseminative works and nowadays he gives talks and conferences related to photography and its application to science and conservation in several centres, festivals and universities around the world.

Joan is a fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers, an elite group of the world’s top wildlife, nature and culture photographers who, in addition to displaying remarkable photographic skills, have each demonstrated a deep commitment to conservation efforts around the globe.

We’re excited to have Joan de la Malla as a judge for our Nature Photographer of the Year contest (NPOTY)!

https://www.joandelamalla.com/

She grew up in Rome, in a family of professional television producers, and has made of “communicating through images” her lifestyle. After her studies in Literature and Philosophy at University, she graduated in Film Direction at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. In 1998 she founded her own Film and TV Distribution Company, Dall’Angelo Pictures, which brought her to outstanding professional achievements. 

In 2011 she returned to devoting herself to photography, one of her youth passions. Over the last few years, she received many awards in the most important International Competitions for Nature Photography and her pictures are often published in popular Travel and Nature magazines. Since 2012 she has regularly collaborated with National Geographic Italia, and she has published, so far, on their magazines and website, more than 30 reportages.

In 2015 she released her first book, Fotografia senza confini (Editrice Reflex), a handbook on how to take photographs at all latitudes. In 2016 she obtained great audience attention and wide critical consensus with her first solo exhibition, The Poetry of Earth, patronized by National Geographic Italia. In the same year, with Electa Mondadori, she published a photography book under the same name. The work brings together more than 100 shots taken in the most remote places of our planet. In 2019, she inaugurated “Click di Sera” at MUSE, Museum of Natural Sciences of Trento, with a live evening, narrating a journey around the world through her photographs.

Her pictures and works are often exhibited throughout Europe and are present in Art Galleries and Private Collections.

We’re excited to have Barbara Dall’Angelo as a judge for our Nature Photographer of the Year contest (NPOTY)!

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