Bio

Roberto Vámos is an award-winning photographer who dedicates his work to the preservation of the ecosystems of our Earth. With a career spanning over 30 years dedicated mainly to landscape and travel photography, Roberto is now focusing on the botanical world, especially on those beings that our vital to our survival but which we rarely acknowledge or even notice: trees. Roberto studied photography at Stanford and Yale universities while pursuing a Bachelor´s and Master´s degree in Environmental Policy. He began his photographic career as a free-lance journalist, but for the past 20 years has dedicated himself to authorial projects. In parallel, he has worked closely with environmental conservation organizations as a speaker and organizer of world-class events that have shaped and motivated his photography. Born in Brazil but having lived and travelled around the world, he is now based in Portugal and undertakes long-term projects such as the documentation of oak forests in the Iberian Peninsula. Roberto has one book published (Viajanseio, 2016) and has exhibited in galleries, cultural centers and art fairs in Brazil, Portugal, and the UK. He has been repeatedly recognized by photo prizes and festivals such as Prix de la Photographie Paris and the Tokyo International Foto Awards, as well as by the Leica Gallery. His works are part of private collections in South America, the United States and Europe.