Andrés Cardona

Andrés Cardona is a photographer, videographer, and artist from the Colombian Amazon. His work has been published in magazines such as Time and Vogue, and in newspapers such as the Washington Post, El País, and Al Jazeera. He dedicates himself to documenting the Amazon and its diverse realities, such as the armed conflict, the destruction of the rainforest, the guardians of wildlife, and the ancestral knowledge of Indigenous communities. He is co-director of the Amazonia es Aquí project by Vist Projects, focused on co-creation processes, structural strengthening, and alliances with communities in the Amazon biome. His work has been exhibited at the BDC Latin American Photography Festival in New York and at the Centre for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona. He won the Poy Latam award for best long-form project in 2023, the Eugene Smith Grant in 2020, The Global COVID Project by Magnum Foundation in 2021, and the Gabo Award for journalistic coverage in 2024 with a team of journalists who developed the Amazon Underworld platform. He has been a National Geographic Explorer since 2022.