Rubén Salgado Escudero

Rubén Salgado Escudero was born in Madrid, Spain. He lived in the United States throughout his teenage years, graduating from the Savannah College of Art and Design and later lived 10 years in Berlin, Germany working in 3D animation. In 2014, while based in Myanmar, he began his ongoing project Solar Portraits, which has been published by National Geographic magazine, Time, GEO, El Pais, and Spiegel. Escudero's work have been exhibited in over 20 cities worldwide including New York, London, Tokyo, and at the Rencontres D'arles photo festival in France. He is a member of The Photo Society, a community of National Geographic photographers. As an experienced lecturer, Escudero has given a TedX Talk in Beijing, and continues giving talks worldwide for National Geographic Learning and other institutions such as Museo Soumaya in Mexico City and the Sony Gallery in New York City. His projects have been published in most major international publications and has won various international awards including the Sony World Photography Award two years in a row and third place in POY Latam (Picture of the Year) two years.