About
Connect with me and let's share our stories
Hola Hola, I'm Iván!
Swiss born Spaniard of Galician origin, based in Nice for over a decade, and a bunch of cities in between. I speak seven languages, which means I can get myself into trouble in more countries than most.
I've spent the last 15 years working in communications, photography, and film across environments that don't have much in common on the surface: luxury hospitality in Monaco, offshore energy and floating wind projects, cycling events and media, documentary work alongside NGOs at the UN Ocean Conference in Nice; UNOC3.
What connects them, for me, is an interest in people and what they actually do. I approach everyone the same way, whether it's a CEO, a delivery rider, or a volunteer setting up chairs. I look for those true moments in people, when they stop performing or do work that rarely gets acknowledged. Making all that visible, in images and in words, and doing it genuinely.
This blog exists because of a bike ride!
I'd always talked about doing the Camino de Santiago, and in 2014 the timing was right. I built this site to document the journey, naively thinking I'd write along the way. What actually happened is I rode, talked to people, filled a notebook with scribbles, took hundreds of photos, and wrote it all up over the following year, reliving each day as I went.
That process, the riding, the seeing, the going back to make sense of it, turned into two books and eventually into the way I work. The camera stopped being something I pick up for a job and became part of how I experience things. Cycling did the same, ever since.
So that's what lives here, rides, stories, people, challenges and whatever I happen to be curious about.
If you're interested in working together, whether it's a film, a photo commission, event coverage, or a communications project, the form below is the easiest way to reach me.
Until then, hasta la fiesta!