Charlie Cordero is a documentary photographer based in the Colombian Caribbean.He is part of the Reojo Colectivo collective. His work spans personal projects, commissions for diverse NGO’s and international media assignments. Charlie is also a university educator. Social justice, climate change, and Caribbean traditions are the recurring themes in his work. Charlie worked with The New York Times, The Guardian, Geo, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, NZZ, El País, Politiken, Vogue, and Vanity Fair. In 2020, he was a fellow of the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation, in 2021 of the National Geographic, and in 2022, he was a Fellow at VII Academy. He participated in group exhibitions: Without Borders by the French alliance in Madrid on PhotoEspaña(2015), Coca-La Guerra Perdida by the Image Center in Mexico (2021), and Inside the Curve by National Geographic (2022). Currently, he is working in his region on a long-term project on the fight of the community of Santa Cruz del Islote, the most densely populated island in the world, against climate change.
Winner second place POY LATAM 2017 category migrations and trafficking in persons.
National Journalism Prize Winner Semana-Argos, category best photo report (2016) - Colombia
National Journalism Prize Winner Rodrigo Lara Laborde, Universidad Sergio Arboleda Category Multimedia (2016) - Colombia
Winner of the contest and exhibitor in Human World “La Tribu” en el festival de PHOTOALICANTE (2016) - Alicante, Spain.
Winner of the Contest “Madrid Insospechado, escenas latinoamericanas en Madrid”. (2015) - Madrid, Spain.
Winner and participant of the exhibition Madrid 24H, In the Gallery Centro Centro Cibeles. PHOTOESPAÑA (2015) - Madrid, Spain.
Finalist and participant of the collective exhibition "Sin Fronteras" Alianza Francesa Madrid PHOTOESPAÑA (2015) – Madrid, Spain.
Finalist and participant of the collective exhibition in Festival Internacional de la Imagen FNI (2015) - Pachuca, México.