About

Daniel Patiño Flor (1979), Guayaquil-Ecuador.

In 2002 Daniel wins the photo contest Concurso de Fotografía Digital Sony de Panamá. Two years later he starts his career as photojournalist at the national newspaper Expreso of Ecuador as a staff photographer. In 2007 he moves to Spain in order to study a Master in Photojournalism at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. In Barcelona he also launches his first individual photo project, Barcelona Latina. In 2011 he receives two awards in the Iberoamerican photojournalism contest Picture of the Year Latinamerica (POY-Latam). In the same year he is chosen to be part of the first edition of the photo exhibition Fotografía a Cielo Abierto in Quito in Ecuador. In 2012 he is chosen to publish his work in a special edition about ecuadorian photojournalism by the magazine Anaconda and he also takes part in the second edition of Fotografía a Cielo Abierto. In 2014 he was invited to be part with his work in the book “Ecuatorianos Retratos”.

After having finished his studies in Barcelona Daniel moves to Falun in Sweden with his wife where he worked as a photojournalist (vik)  for the newspapers Dalarnas Tidningar (DT). Currently he live in Örebro and works as a photojournalist (vik)  for the newspapers Nerikes Allehanda (NA)

CV:

Education
2009 Master in Photojournalist at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain.

2005 Bachelors in Social Comunication, Ecuador.

Workshops
2009 Encuentros de Fotoperiodismo Ciudad de Gijón, Spain (Scholarship).

2006 Fundación Nuevo Periodismo de Iberoamérica (FNPI), workshop with Stephen Ferry (Scholarship), Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

2005 Universidad San Francisco de Quito, workshop with Pablo Corral Vega from National Geographic Magazine, Quito-Ecuador.

Work experience

2013 Photographer (vik) for the swedish regional newspaper Nerikes Allehanda (current).
2011-12 Photographer (vik) for the swedish regional newspaper Dalarnas Tidningar

2010 Personal assistant for the photographer Randy Olson from National Geographic, (april).

2004-2008 Staff photographer for the national newspaper Expreso from Ecuador.

Awards
2011 POYi Latinoamerica 1st place in Migration and Traffic single category.

2011 POYi Latinoamerica 3rd place in Migration and Traffic story category.

2002 Best photographer award in the Premio de Fotografía Digital Sony of Panama.

Nominations
2008 Nominated to the All Roads Photography contest held by National Geographic Magazine.

Books

2013 Ecuatorianos Retratos (several authors), MCDS-MIES-SENECYT-Universidad de Cuenca, (primera edición), Quito, Ecuador.

Exhibition

2012 “El Golfo del Olvido”, group exhibition in “Fotografía a Cielo Abierto”(Open Air Photography) held by the City Museum Foundation of Quito and the Quito Contemporary Art Center. Quito-Ecuador.

2012 “Insider, Outsider?”  group exhibition held by Majority Word Photo Agency and The Guardian, Guardian Gallery, London 2012.

2012 “The forgotten Gulf” Group exhibition “Fotografía a Cielo Abierto”(Open Air Photography) held by the City Museum Foundation of Quito and the Quito Contemporary Art Center. Quito-Ecuador.

2011 “Barcelona Latina”, group exhibition in “Fotografía a Cielo Abierto”(Open Air Photography) held by the City Museum Foundation of Quito and the Quito Contemporary Art Center. Quito-Ecuador.

2011 “Barcelona Latina”  solo exhibition in the FLACSO in Quito-Ecuador.

2010 Group exbition “Migration: Origen, Transit, Destination and Return” held by the IV World Congress of Social Migrations in Quito-Ecuador.

2007 “The forgotten Gulf”, solo exhibition at the Mirador Gallery at the Catholic University of Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Publication and journalistic covers

Daniel Patiño Flor has published his work in magazines and newspapers in Ecuador and Latinamerican like Anaconda, Terra Incógnita, Vanguardia, Soho, Diners, Semana, Sueño de la Razón, Mondaphoto, Journal Expreso, Journal El Telégrafo and he has made journalistic covers in several countries like Cuba, Panamá, Bolivia, USA, Greece, Spain and Sweden.

Links

www.danielpatinoflorblog.wordpress.com

http://danielpatinoflor.tumblr.com/

Contact
danielpatinoflor(a)yahoo.es