Contact
sllanaspaez@gmail.com / sllanaspaezfoto@gmail.com
@sergillanas
Sergi Llanas Paez (Barcelona, 1998) is a journalist specialized in creative and documentary photography at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2021). His main work is about social topics in his homeland. The aim of his work is transcending the borders of consciousness through images. Starting as a photojournalist, he decided to move to Paris in order to pursue long term projects that tell hidden stories all around the world in a partnership between Spéos International Photography School and Magnum Photos. He currently lives and works in Barcelona for El País newspaper. Previously, Llanas worked in the written press in local magazines, on television as a freelance during the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and as a documentary and travel photographer from 2018 until now.
Llanas identifies himself as a nomad photographer, traveling as much as possible to get in touch with different mindsets that define his photography little by little. Mainly interested in human rights, climate change and ethnical and cultural diversity.
He has been exposed at Galerie Magnum Paris, at Visa Pour l'Image, in Perpignan (2021), during the international festival of photojournalism, as well as in local events in his hometown, Barcelona.
Expertise
-Creative and Documentary photography
-Photojournalism
-Editorial photography
-Portrait
-Written reportage