Rubén Salgado Escudero was born in Madrid, Spain. He lived in the United States throughout his teenage years, graduating from the Savannah College of Art and Design. In 2014 he decided to change his life completely, leaving behind a ten-year long career in character animation in Germany. Instead he leaves for Myanmar to pursue his passion for photography and document the opening of a country that had been closed to the world for more than half a century. Today he is based in Mexico.
Rubén's works have been exhibited and sold in more than over 20 cities across the world including New York, London, Tokyo and at the ''Rencontres D'arles'' festival in France. He is a member of 'The Photo Society', a community of National Geographic Magazine photographers.
His projects have been published in most major international publications, and has won over a dozen international awards including the Sony World Photography Award two years in a row and the POY Latam (Picture of the Year) two times.
Access to electricity has the immediate ability to drastically improve living conditions. These portraits form a visual diary documenting how solar panels have transformed daily life for villagers in Myanmar.
