Manu Quintero is a freelance photographer based in Spain. He has spent most of his time covering the social and political crisis in his country, Venezuela, for several media outlets and news agencies for the last 12 years. He has been commissioned and published by National Geographic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Volkskrant (The Netherlands), BBC Mundo, Epoca Magazine (Brazil), Veja Magazine (Brazil), Folha de Sao Paulo (Brazil) while collaborating with several news agencies such as Bloomberg, Reuters, EFE/EPA, DPA and AFP.

Since 2021, while continue as photojournalist, Manu started focusing on sport photography, mostly adventure sports such as Climbing, Surfing and mountain sports with his storytelling touch, being commisioned by sports federations in Venezuela and climbing industry in Spain. 

For Manu life is a documentary itself and he is constantly exploring how to bring aesthetic images while documenting in different fields which are not related to photojournalism.


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Manu Quintero es un fotoperiodista con base en España. Ha pasado la mayoria de su carrera documentando la crisis politica y social de su pais, Venezuela, para diversos clientes de todo el mundo durante los ultimos 12 años tales como The National Geographic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Volkskrant (Holanda), BBC Mundo, Epoca Magazine (Brasil), Veja Magazine (Brasil), Folha de Sao Paulo (Brasil) mientras colaboraba como Stringer para varias agencias de noticias tales Bloomberg, Reuters, EFE/EPA, DPA y AFP.

Desde 2021, mientras continua como fotoperiodista, Manu desarrollo interes por la fotografia deportiva, enfocandose principalmente en Escalada, Surfing y deportes de montaña produciendo un material con un toque de storytelling, logrando asignaciones de federaciones deportivas en Venezuela asi como de la industria de la escalada deportiva en España.

Para Manu la vida es un documental en si mismo y esta constantemente en la busqueda de implementar un documentalismo estetico en campos que no estan relacionados al fotoperiodismo.

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