Adrian Alvarez (b. 1992 in Madrid) is an award-winning freelance reporter & documentary photographer, currently based in Madrid, Spain.

His work focuses on issues involving social justice and identity, as well as the way people interact with their environment. Adrian understands visual storytelling as a means to build bridges between realities, to create common spaces where civic and public conversation can lead to new levels of mutual understanding between different collectives of our society.

He graduated in Journalism at Complutense University of Madrid in 2015. Then he traveled to United Kingdom to complete the MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the University of the Arts London. In 2022 he was recognized with the Dawn Journalism Award (Premio Amanecer de Periodismo 2022) for his long-term photo essay about rural depopulation and resilience in Spain.

Alvarez’s work has been published in international media outlets such as The Washington Post, GEO Magazine, El País, ElDiario.es, and Público among others; as well as exhibited in England, France and Spain. He has also worked on commercial assignments for clients such as LG Electronics and Warner Music Spain.

Adrian Alvarez is currently developing lines of investigation about humanitarian crisis, energy poverty, historical memory, identity, depopulation and territory.