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‘How to draw restless birds’, an illustration workshop with Szabolcs Kókay (Hungary)

Szabolcs Kókay is self-taught, with no formal artistic training. From the beginning the artists who have most influenced him are those who work outdoors, directly with nature. Field work motivates him a lot and it has left a mark on his art. He still remembers the difficulties and challenges that he experienced in the beginning. […]

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‘Painting birds of paradise’, by Szabolcs Kókay (Hungary)

It all started with a commission to paint various groups of birds, including birds of paradise, for a Papua New Guinea field guide. In 2014, on a month-long expedition to that Oceanian country, Hungarian nature artist Szabolcs Kókay developed the work, which was followed five years later by a bird-watching trip to West Papua. This

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‘How to make a good book better: the endless need to look again and again!’, by Killian Mullarney (Ireland)

Killian Mullarney is internationally known as one of the authors of the best-selling European field guide of the last 20 years, the ‘Collins Bird Guide’, first published in 1999, which he illustrated with Dan Zetterström. The ‘Collins Bird Guide’ is written by Lars Svensson and the late Peter J. Grant and is a key reference

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‘Looking for your photograph, loving nature’, by Nuria Blanco (Spain)

Nature photography is a discipline and tool that offers emotion, satisfaction and personal growth. Images taken by Nuria Blanco in different natural paradises around the world show how what is important is not only the place, but also the passion and how it is perceived, in addition to the repercussions that can follow in the

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‘Around the sound. Different ways of listening to nature’, colloquium with Carlos de Hita, Eloïsa Matheu, José Luis Copete and José Carlos Sires (Spain)

Different ways of using sound recordings based on experience in communication, outreach, acoustic ecology and citizens’ science. Carlos de Hita has worked on more than 180 documentary programmes and film productions, including ‘Panteras’ (2021), ‘Cantabrian, the mountains of the brown bear’ (2017), ‘Elvoy de Unai’ (2016), ‘Guadalquivir ‘ (2014), ‘Entrelobos’ (2010) and ’14 kilometres’ (2007).

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Conversation with Andoni Canela, director of the movie ‘Panteras’

February 20th | 13:30-14:00 FOTOFIO Marquee With a degree in Information Sciences (UAB) and a diploma in Photography from the London College of Printing, Andoni Canela is a photographer and documentary filmmaker specializing in nature and the environment, as well as the author of reports on biodiversity, climate change, wildlife conservation and natural spaces around

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‘Humanisation or extinction’, by Eudald Carbonell (Atapuerca Foundation, Spain)

February 19th | 13:30-14:30 Stage Marquee A Ten Commandments for Homo sapiens to avoid the collapse of the species and promote great change. Eudald Carbonell, founding patron and vice president of the Atapuerca Foundation and professor of Prehistory at the Rovira i Virgili University, argues that our species, immersed in a scientific and technological revolution,

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