Omar Marques is a Portuguese freelance photojournalist from northwest Portugal based in Krakow, Poland. He works as a stringer for Getty Images, Anadolu Agency and collaborates with magazines on editorial and commercial assignments between Central/Eastern Europe and the Balkans. In addition to providing news coverage around Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans, he works on personal long-term projects. Omar’s photographs have been published in The Times, The New York Times, Stern Magazine, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Paris Match, Le Point, Newsweek Poland, Peninsula Qatar, La Croix, among others. He has presented his work during photography workshops and summer schools, including those organized by the Europaeum network based in Oxford, Jagiellonian University in Poland, and Sofia University in Bulgaria. As Omar is always on the run and suffers from the chronic disease “press the shutter”, he looks forward to establishing cooperation, and partnerships, and exploring the wildest places on the planet.
Awards
- 2021 - 1st place in the editorial environmental category of ND Awards – click here
- 2021 - Honourable mention on the press nature environmental category at the Px3 Paris Photography Prize- click here
- 2021 - Honourable mention and Jury top 5 on the press nature environmental category at the International Photography Awards (IPA) – click here
- 2021 - Silver Star Award in the editorial environmental category at the Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) – click here
- 2022 - 2nd Place in Professional Editorial/ Press/ General News category at the International Photography Awards (IPA) - click here
- 2022 - 1st Place in the Editorial category at the Budapest International Foto Awards - click here
- 2022 - 2nd Place in the editorial general news category at the ND Awards - click here
- 2022 - Gold in Editorial/General news category at the Tokyo Foto Awards - click here
Workshops
- Street Photography Workshop with David Gibson, Krakow, May 2014
- “Tell me a story” workshop with Paolo Woods, ISSP, Latvia, August 2016
- Street Photography Workshop with David Gibson, Krakow, September 2017
Exhibitions
- Polónia, no periscópio da modernidade – Lx Factory, Lisbon, Portugal / August 2016
- Group exhibition, ISSP 2016, Kuldiga, Latvia / August 2016
- Open Krakow – Street photography exhibition – Villa Decius, Krakow, Poland / March 2017
- Refugees – Images of the Unseen – Tytano, Krakow, Poland / July 2017
- Refugees – Images of the Unseen – Group Exhibition, Foto Open at Bielsko Biala Foto Art Festival / October 2017
- Refugees – Images of the Unseen – Selected to be part of “All Tomorrows” exhibition during TIFF Festival in Wroclaw, Poland / September 2019
- Krakow Photo Month - Group exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts Jan Mateko- 2022
- International Photo Awards winners exhibition at the House of Lucy in Budapest - 2023