Gab Mejia (he/they) is a queer Filipino photographer, multidisciplinary artist, and environmental engineer.
Born and raised in the Philippine archipelago, he explores and weaves the fabrics of visual storytelling, environmental design, and ecology through the arts, photography, poetics, and participatory research. His work unveils the threads of the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, ancestral knowledge, cosmologies, and cultural interconnections to confront our socio-political and ecological crises. His work has been published in National Geographic, BBC, Art Partner, Atmos, Vogue, and has been exhibited at the National Museum of the Philippines, Objectifs Singapore, Photo London, Grand Palais, Fotografiska Shanghai, among other platforms, museums, and cultural spaces.
Mejia is a National Geographic Explorer, Climate Pledge Global Storyteller, Fellow in the International League of Conservation Photographers, and Fellow of the Prince Albert II Foundation. He currently resides as a Board of Trustee for the World Wide Fund for Nature Philippines working on natural and cultural heritage conservation in the Philippines
He continues to explore the plurality of narratives, identities, and depictions of ecology through speculative documentary and island world-making — hoping to deepen the understanding of our shared yet fraught relationship with the environment and of ourselves.
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