Gabriel

I’m Gabriel (b. 1979), a photographer, photojournalist and retoucher.
I picked up an old film camera as a kid in a mining town, where my first pictures came from slag heaps, empty shafts and the quiet that follows work. Those early scenes taught me to look for atmosphere and the small human traces inside it.

After leaving home I lived in England and Spain, then spent three years as the personal photographer to a Tibetan diplomat, travelling widely and documenting his meetings and journeys. When he passed away, I joined a major daily newspaper as a photojournalist; since then my assignments and features have appeared in more than ten newspapers and magazines.

Alongside newsroom work I pursue photography as an art—portraits and documentary stories that try to carry mood and feeling as much as fact. I handle my own post-production as a retoucher to keep the images faithful to what I saw.

I’m still on the road, still curious, still looking for that quiet intersection of light, place and human presence.