Miguel Angel

Miguel Amortegui

Hello! I am an photojournalist / Artist /Filmmaker. I use the visual mediums of film and photography to tell meaningful stories, often (but not exclusively) with a social conscience. I am also a trained participatory photography facilitator – building photography and digital storytelling skills within often disadvantaged or marginalised communities to enable individuals to represent themselves and create tools for advocacy and communication. This has included work with gangs in London, residents of Lima’s slums in Peru, and communities experiencing extreme poverty in Ghana. I have produced documentaries with exiled people around the world.

I have spent a very long time working with communities that have been in exiled, abused, or destroyed by war, famine, political regime or social and sexual discrimination. I lived in the infamous refugee camp in Calais, France, called The Jungle. Where I spent most of my time teaching refugees photography in order to give them a voice through social media platforms while at the same time writing a photography book called Voices of the Jungle. ( A compilations of stories of a refugee camp)