Daniel Beltrá Photography

04/23/2021

Next Tuesday 6pm (PCT) you can watch me live, details below 😉

SPILL by Daniel Beltrá - EARTH IS OUR WITNESS Live!

BP's 2010 explosion on Deepwater Horizon Oil Drill killed 11 men and sent 210 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, causing 68,000 square miles of black tide.

Join us in a conversation with Daniel Beltrá Photography on his beautiful and melancholic photographs of one of the most destructive environmental disasters in human history.

Joining us will be artist-in-residence Art Wolfe and producer/host Parimal Deshpande.

WHEN: Tue, April 27 at 6 pm PST / 9 pm EST

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01/02/2020

Please spread the word and help out Joel Sartore find his missing hard drives. This is heart-breaking:
To All Friends of the Photo Ark, ‪Last Friday night at the Bali Airport, one my pieces of carry-on luggage was stolen, a black Samsonite rolling bag. Unfortunately, the bag contained not only my computer, cameras, and passport, but also three hard drives that were loaded with images and videos of some of the world’s rarest animals. All were filmed during the past three weeks in Indonesia, an amazing country with incredible biodiversity. All were destined to become part of the Photo Ark.‬ I need your help now to bring these hard drives home. No questions asked.
Each is blue in color, either 1 TB or 2 TB, and are made by Silicon Power.
An example is shown below.
If you have any information that could lead us to these missing hard drives, please contact myself, the local authorities or my friends at Asa Film in Bali, phone ‪+62 812 9829 8109‬
Thank you,
Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker Joel Sartore has had his bag stolen at Bali airport. The bag in question contained his computer, cameras, and worst of all, hard drives containing images from a three-week trip he’d spent shooting some of the world’s rarest animals. Bali police, as we...

09/20/2018

Twenty-six of my photos of Indonesia, Greenland and the Antarctic have been included in the COAL + ICE exhibit in San Francisco co-curated by Susan Meiselas and Jeroen de Vries. COAL + ICE will be at the Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture until September 23rd and features work by a total of 40 photographers on the consequences of fossil fuel usage on global warming.
The three photos digitally displayed here are from my Greenland series; they show the impact of dark snow (airborne coal soot pollution) on the melting of the ice sheet west of Ilulissat in 2014.
If you're in the Bay area or just passing thru in the next couple of days, please take time to check it out!
Coal + Ice
Photo by Jamey Stillings

07/12/2018

I'm very excited to share that I was chosen by Apple to test out their new Macbook Pro laptops which were officially launched earlier this morning.

Between the 2.9ghz of processing power, the four terabyte solid-state hard drive and the 32 gigabytes of RAM, my pre-release version is a blazing fast machine which will greatly speed and simplify my workflow both in the field and at my home base.

Apple brought myself and eleven other professional users to New York for the past couple of days to give a demonstration to the international press, and it was inspiring to be surrounded by such talented, passionate and creative people. You can read more about it here: https://bit.ly/2N9epXz

I'm really looking forward to taking this out on an assignment. Thanks to Apple for inviting me to be a part of this.

04/17/2018

My story on deforestation of the Amazon . It and the other winners will be exhibited in Amsterdam at De Nieuwe Kerk until July 22nd and at galleries across the world starting in May. For more information and to see if it is coming to your neck of the woods, go to www.worldpressphoto.org/exhibitions

10/31/2017

The Kickstarter for the Photographers Against Wildlife Crime book that includes work by both myself and my esteemed colleagues is steadily moving towards its goal, but can use your help. Please share and contribute if possible.

We want to end the demand for wildlife products. We will launch this book in May 2018 followed by a Mandarin edition for sale in China.

10/17/2017

This is a fantastic project I'm proud to be a part of. Please share and, if possible, contribute to it. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2017/oct/16/photographers-against-wildlife-in-pictures

09/13/2017

I'm pleased to share that a 48"x72" fine art print of "Amazon Scarlet Ibis ( #222), 2017" (which you may have seen earlier on my instagram feed this year) will be in the Catherine Edelman Gallery booth at Expo Chicago from today thru the end of this weekend. Seen here, it is being installed with white gloves by CEG staffers Tim and Juli.

It makes a striking presence in any space, even inside the Navy Pier! Unfortunately I won't be able to drop by as I'm still in the DRC for a bit longer, but if you're in Chicago, please stop by and have a look at it and all the rest of the work by artists with the Catherine Edelman Gallery.

09/12/2017

I'm off to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a commission from Greenpeace on issues related to the preservation - and increasingly, desctruction - of its peatland rainforest. The DRC's rainforests - one of the world's most biodiverse regions - cover an area nearly three times the state of California, so there will be plenty to photograph. I'm excited and thankful for the opportunity that this assignment will bring more attention to an overlooked and neglected ecosystem.

This photo is an aerial view of an affluent of the Tshuapa River east of Mbandaka, almost exactly on the equator that I shot for Prince Charles's Rainforests Project in 2009.

I believe that the true beauty of the natural environment is that it is something we can all understand, appreciate and come together to help protect.

11/30/2016

I'm thrilled that one of my Greenland photos was chosen to be displayed at the entrance of Art Miami.
If you aren't familiar with it, Art Miami is the leading international contemporary and modern art fair: it is open till Dec 4th.
I wish I could see it in person. If you are there, stop by Catherine Edelman Gallery (booth B300). Photo by Juli Lowe.
Please feel free to share.

11/16/2016

PhotoWings interviewed Daniel at the Blue Earth Alliance's Collaboration for Cause about how he views his work, how others interpret it, and advice for how to get started in photography.

http://photowings.org/daniel-beltra-changing-perspectives/ #

10/24/2016

The New Yorker magazine published one of my photos for an article by Elizabeth Kolbert about the melting of Greenland in this week's issue.

Pick up a copy if you have a chance! It's a double page spread and looks fantastic. And if you can't, please read the piece about the early impacts of global warming.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/24/greenland-is-melting

The shrinking of Greenland’s ice sheet is triggering feedback loops that accelerate the global crisis. The floodgates may already be open.