Story about Steven Alvarez

1. Stephen Alvarez
He is born in 1965 .He is an American photojournalist. He is the founder and the president of
the ancient art archive. A global initiative to record, preserve and share high-resolution images
of ancient artwork. Throughout his career, he produced global stories about exploration and
culture. He became a national geographic photographer in 1995. His pictures has won awards in
pictures of the year International and communications arts and have been exhibited at visa
pour l’lmage international photojournalism festival in perigon, France
The ancient art archives
In 2014 while on assignment for a national geographic story on the roots of artistic expression
(published as the origins of art” in jan. 2015) issue, Alvarez photographed prehistoric cave
paintings in France’s Chauvet cave. As Alvarez described it, the experience of photographing the
cave art some of them was 35,000 years old
Alvarez’s career
an avid cave explorer from his youth, Alvarez received his first professional assignment from
time magazine in 1991 to photograph discoveries in mammoth cave. This was the first of the
many assignments to photograph cave exploration and underground landscapes throughout
the world
His awards and exhibits
 pictures of the year in 2004
 PDN photo annual in 2006
 The aftermath project auction in 2006
 Mobile world congress, Barcelona in 2016
By Adam Mohamed Magar