Jesús Umbría Brito (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1971)
Jesús Umbría Brito has a degree in Information Sciences from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He currently combines his activity as an audiovisual producer with the development of personal photographic projects.
He has completed PHotoESPAÑA’s Master of Photographic Projects Program, as well as training in narrative and in the photobook discipline with Elisa Miralles, and the Masa Madre workshop with Juan Brenner.
Jesús received the ADG Laus Bronze Award in the complete book category, was finalist in the Promax Europe Awards in Vienna and was the winner of the human/culture best new talent category at the Analogue Sparks Photography Awards. His work was selected for ENAIRE Foundation's 2024 Photography Awards exhibition at the opening of PHotoESPAÑA 2024, sited at the Royal Botanical Gardens of Madrid.
Identity, intergenerational links, gender, diversity and the complexity of the world around us are recurring themes in the development of his body of work, which focuses on representing those who live on cultural margins.