Diego Vivanco
photographer and writer
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Diego Vivanco
Diego Vivanco is a Spanish photographer and writer based in Zaragoza. His work has featured in international newspapers and magazines, exhibitions and festivals. He is also an award-winning filmmaker, and one of the co-founders of Kauri, a production team specialising in multimedia storytelling, web documentaries and short films. You can check out his films at www.kaurimultimedia.com.
— Articles by Diego Vivanco —
hidden europe 54: Feature
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Lanzarote's White Gold: The Dying Art of Salt Harvesting
by Diego VivancoGuest writer Diego Vivanco takes us on a tour of the salt works at Janubio on Lanzarote, where Modesto Perdomo worked for over forty years. Now this industrial landscape is finding new life as a conservation zone where visitors can discover the Canarian art of salt harvesting.
hidden europe 52: Feature
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Eric and the Windmill: Keeping Dutch Land Dry
by Diego VivancoA windmill is a retreat from modernity and a place to ponder the passing of the seasons in the Dutch landscape. No-one knows that better than Eric Zwijnenberg who, for over half a century, has managed a traditional smock mill in the province of Noord-Holland.
Just prior to the start of Lent each year, the village of Bielsa on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees welcomes a flood of visitors to its annual carnival. For a couple of days of transgression, the frenetic energy of the carnival contrasts with the normally slow pace of mountain life. Diego Vivanco escorts us through the crowded streets of Bielsa at a time when caution is thrown to the wind. Anything can happen at carnival time.
Guest contributor Diego Vivanco visits the village of San Vicente de la Sonsierra in Spain's Rioja region to see how its inhabitants mark Holy Week. He witnesses a Lenten spectacle that is both theatrical and intimate at the same time.
Southern Europe is criss-crossed by old drove routes that served the pastoral economies of yesteryear. In Spain, these routes are called canadas. They are still used by herders who practice transhumance, spending summer in the hills with their cattle and returning each autumn to the coastal lowlands. Guest contributor Diego Vivanco joined Lionel Martorell and a herd of Avilena cattle on a five day trek down to the Ebro delta.