Welcome to Pangeafoto

Here you will find a collection of published and unpublished photographs from personal and editorial projects. My themes frequently straddle ethnography and documentary photography, and often have a strong humanist bias. Many of the images on this website are the result of projects which involved long planning and establishing contacts in the host community. In practical terms, these projects were undertaken on a genuine non-for-profit basis. Many of the images you will find here have been donated to charities and NGOs both in Spain and UK.

I’m an avid reader of photography theory and criticism and have special interest in contemporary documentary photography and cross-media environments. I also have an increasing interest in ethnographic landscapes and in the concept of wilderness as a place – i.e. wilderness as home.

Please feel free post your comments on my galleries; I’m genuinely interested in knowing your opinion about my work.

About Jose Navarro

I hold an MA in Documentary Photography by the University of Wales, Newport. Over the last few years I have combined editorial work with personal travel and documentary photography. I’m currently a tutor on Digital Photography and Social Documentary courses for The Open College of the Arts. Within the next two years I will also complete an MA degree in Environmental Anthropology at the University of Wales, Lampeter.

I have travelled extensively  and photographed in challenging natural environments such as the High Andes, Alaska, Lapland, India’s Thar Desert and the Moroccan High Atlas plateau. I’ve been a researcher for Rough Guides’  Morocco, Europe and Kerala titles, and editor of Alastair Sawday’s Spain and Morocco books. I was expedition photographer on Raleigh International’s expedition to Guyana and won a Wilderness Award for a cycling and photographic expedition across the Andean Desert. In 2001 I received an On The Line Millennium Commission Award for my cycling/photographic project in Mali.