About Javier Arcenillas

Photographer and Editor, graduated in Evolutionary Psychology at the Complutense University, he is a Professor of Documentary Photography at the PICA School.

His projects and photography are developed in the long term exploring the Psycho-Sociology of reality in a dreamlike and imaginative counterpoint where the territory is confronted in a systemic conflict with its social, political and natural environment.

He has won the most important international awards, such as, UNICEF Prize, Sony World Photography, POYI, POY Latam, Fotoevidence, Eugene Smith Grant, Getty Images Grant, Lucas Dolega Grant, ISEM Prix and World Press Photo.
His most complete reports can be seen in Time, Spiegel, Stern, Lens, GQ, L'Expresso, Sunday Times, El Pais, El Mundo, GEO or IL Magazine. He has published 5 books, CITYHOPE, WELCOME, SICARIOS, UFOPRESENCES and LATIDOAMERICA.

Javier Arcenillas's Projects on LensCulture
Javier Arcenillas's Books