Omar Marques

Omar Marques

http://www.omarmarquesphotography.com

Omar Marques is a Portuguese freelance photojournalist from the north west of Portugal.

Omar works as a freelance photojournalist for several news agencies on editorial and commercial assignments and has his own studio in Krakow, Poland.

Apart of providing news coverage around Central, Eastern Europe and Balkans, he works in personal long term projects.  Since 2015, he has been working in a long term project regarding the refugee crisis in Europe.

Some of Omar pictures have been published in The Times, The New York Times, CNBC, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Paris Match, Le Point, Newsweek Poland,  Peninsula Qatar, La Croix among others.

Some of his work has been exhibited in Poland, Portugal and Latvia and in 2017 the first exhibition of his project about the refugee crisis took place in Krakow, Poland on June,2017.

He has presented his work during photography workshops but also during several summer schools (including the ones organised by The Europaeum network based in Oxford, UK, Jagiellonian University in Poland and Sofia University in Bulgaria).