El reino verde
The green kingdom Costa Rica, 2024
Costa Rica's forests are a true natural treasure, where the grandeur of green is evident in every corner.
It is the first tropical country in the world to reverse deforestation. Today, its tropical forests cover about 60% of its territory.
With an impressive biodiversity, these ecosystems are home to approximately 6% of the planet's biological diversity. As you explore its many protected parks, you will encounter thousands of species of flora and fauna, many of which are unique to this place. Walking along its trails, you can feel the freshness of the air, impregnated with the scent of damp earth and vegetation. The trees rise impressively, creating a canopy that filters the sunlight, giving a spectacle of shadows and lights.
In Monteverde, the mist surrounds you as you listen to the sounds of hundreds of creatures that inhabit the forest, home to 4% of the world's biodiversity. Its forests are located between the Pacific and the Atlantic, which generates a persistent cloud cover that favours the development of the famous Cloud Forest. To enter it is to travel to the Jurassic.
In the Tortuguero canals, the enigmatic eyes of a large crocodile peek out, while toucans soar through the sky and golden orioles acrobatically dart in and out of their nests.
At Arenal, you wait a few hours for a sloth bear to move so you can see its face. In the meantime, you observe orchids, ferns and bromeliads or enjoy a dip in the hot springs.
In Manuel Antonio you have to be on your toes as you try to avoid curious white-faced monkeys opening your backpack and almost step on a poisonous green parrot viper.
All in all, a typical day in Costa Rica.
Photographic exhibition T r a v e l l e r s
If a journey is defined as a route or itinerary taken to get from one place to another, then travel photography should cover the images taken during that journey.
But, in reality, for the travel photographer these images are not simply postcards of memories, they are something much more complex.
Each travel photograph is a visual narrative of diverse experiences and cultures. Each image tells its own story and carries the viewer into a different world full of emotions. Therefore, by capturing a place, its people or its culture in its most authentic form, the feeling of a specific space and time is communicated.
In this exhibition, Paco Civantos, Mercedes Higuero Bisbe, Nuria Murillo Lara and María Jesús Villaseñor, through their photographs, invite us to discover new worlds:
Volcanoes, black sand beaches and endless waterfalls in the untamed wilderness of Iceland; bridges, cranes and huge towers in the urban landscape of Dubai; the life, the sound and smell of the jungle, expressed through the infinite green nuances of Costa Rica as well as the water landscapes of a glacier in Patagonia to the salt flats of Pamukkale in Turkey.
We take off and begin our trip ...