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.
Mejia is a National Geographic Explorer, Climate Pledge Global Storyteller, Fellow in the International League of Conservation Photographers, 2019 Jackson Wild Media Lab Fellow, and has published stories and works in National Geographic, BBC, CNN, ArtPartner, Vogue, United Nations, Manila Times, Fotografiska Shanghai, Photo London, TEDx talks among other local and global publications, exhibitions, museums, scientific journals, and living spaces.
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 nature through mythopoetics and speculative documentary— hoping to gain a deeper understanding of our shared yet fraught relationship with the environment and ourselves.
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