ROBERTO GARCÍA ROA
CONSERVATION PHOTOGRAPHY & SCIENCE

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

― Jane Goodall

As a conservation photographer, I find photography to be one of the most powerful experiences for creating empathy with nature. My work seeks not only to provide an artistic view of what I live and learn from, but also to create an attractive and powerful link between society and nature.

To this end, I combine the power of images with the story and/or scientific knowledge behind them to open new avenues of understanding between our culture as humans and our role as a key species in sustaining and protecting our planet.

We are in a time when every step toward understanding the complexity of nature can lead to a piece of its preservation. For this very reason, showing the outstanding places from all over the world, the striking species that inhabit a wide variety of ecosystems, as well as the surprising natural processes that take place every day, is probably one of the most promising ways to raise awareness of the importance of thinking in nature before making governmental, professional, or personal decisions.

If we're going to fight for nature, let's do it with a camera in our hands.

National and international awards:

2024: Award of excellence, category Science & Natural History (Pictures of the Year)
2023: Finalist, category People Choice Award (Wildlife Photographer of the Year) | Runner up winner, category Plants and Fungi (European Wildlife Photographer of the year) | Winner, category Sustainable World (BMC Ecology)
2022: Finalist, category People Choice Award (Wildlife Photographer of the Year) | Overall winner (Capturing Ecology – British Ecological Society) | Overall winner (BMC Ecology & Evolution) | Winner, category Fungi and Plants, and runner up, category Photojournalism (Montphoto) | Highly commended, category Other animal (Memorial Maria Luisa)
2021: Overall Runner-up (Capturing Ecology – British Ecological Society) | Finalist, category Insects (Close-Up Photographer of the Year) | Finalist, category Humans and Nature (XV Golden Turtle) | Winner, categories Behavioral Ecology, Population Ecology, and Human Evolution & Ecology (BMC Ecology and Evolution)
2020: Finalist, category Animals, and shortlisted, categories Animals and Insects (Close-up Photographer of the Year) | Winner, category The Art of Ecology, and highly commended, categories Dynamic Ecosystems and People and Nature (Capturing Ecology – British Ecological Society) | Finalist, category Small world (Fotonoja)
2019: Overall winner (Capturing Ecology – British Ecological Society) | Best fauna photography (EDC Natura photo competition)
2018: Overall runner up, and winner category Up Close up and personal (Capturing Ecology – British Ecological Society) | Runner up, category Ecology and Environmental Sciences (Royal Society photo competition)
2017: Winner, category Up Close and Personal (Capturing Ecology – British Ecological Society) | Overall runner up (BMC Ecology photo competition)
2016: Winner, categories Ecosystems and Communities (Capturing Ecology – British Ecological Society) |Runner up, category Ecology and Environmental Sciences (Royal Society photo competition)
2015: Overall winner (Capturing Ecology – British Ecological Society)