About Guillermo Cervera Photography


Guillermo Cervera is a freelance photographer represented by Aurora Photos with over 18 years of experience documenting armed conflict and social issues for the international press. His work has taken him from the frontlines of Bosnia in 1993, to the uprises in Libya and Cairo, Egypt in 2011, from rebel camps in Chad, to photographing gang wars in Caracas, Venezuela and the Tamil Tigers separatist militant group during the Sri Lanka Civil War in 2008. He has covered refugees and IDPs in Darfur, the rise of capitalism in communist Cuba, methamphetamine addition in southern Washington, D.C., American gospel churches and European Arms dealers.

Cervera has worked primarily in the Peshwar region since 2008. He is currently based in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he is working unembedded on longterm projects on the daily life of the Taliban, and the economic force of the Western arms market.
His photographs are regularly published in Marie Claire, The Guardian, Paris match, La Vanguardia, ABC and El Mundo, among others, and have been exhibited in galleries in Madrid and Barcelona.

In between editorial assignments, Cervera travels to surf breaks worldwide photographing big wave surfers for commercial clients and a half dozen surf magazines.

He is available for assignments worldwide.