Eduardo Margareto Atienza (Medina de Rioseco, Valladolid, 1967) is the author of the photographs that illustrate the articles in “Talentos con Acento”.

He has been the graphics editor of the Castilla y León news agency, ICAL, since 2002. His career as a photographer began more than 25 years ago in Salamanca, where he worked for La Gaceta de Salamanca and Tribuna de Salamanca, as well as being the graphic correspondent in that province for the EFE Agency and the newspapers El Mundo and ABC.

Eduardo Margareto’s work has received on four occasions (1998, 2014, 2023 and 2024) the most prestigious journalism award in Castilla y León, the Francisco de Cossío.

His extensive educational work led him to create a photography school in the city of Salamanca, as well as publishing a dozen books, including ‘El mundo al otro lado’, with the participation of 80 international poets.

Margareto’s photographic work has been exhibited in Spanish cities such as Valladolid, Zamora, Salamanca, León, Burgos and Ávila and in almost a dozen cities around the world: Havana (Cuba); Miami (USA), Bogotá (Colombia); Lisbon and Oporto (Portugal), and Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), among others.

In relation to his work in the audiovisual field and the direction of documentaries, his career is also broad and diverse, since he directed the short film ‘Humilladero’ in Salamanca in 1995. Years later, in 2009, he made a video installation about the hospitaleros of the hostels on the Camino de Santiago, which formed part of the exhibition ‘Itinerarium por el Camino’, which was inaugurated in Sao Paulo (Brazil). A theme that he addressed in his first documentary, in 2010, with ‘Almas del Camino’, with the hospitaleros of the hostels of the Camino de Santiago as protagonists.

That same year, 2010, he began filming a trilogy of documentaries on 20th century emigration to Latin America: ‘Partir’, recorded in Cuba; ‘Volver’, in Argentina (2011), and ‘Vivir’, in Mexico, still pending production.

Three years later, in 2014, he directed the documentary ‘24’, screened at the Seminci, and in 2016 he made the documentary ‘Canal de Castilla. El sueño ilustrado‘, a work screened in several cities and television channels. In 2016 he directed, together with Enrique Bueno, ‘Cuando Zorrilla fue Twikenhan’, also screened at the Seminci. And a year later, in 2017, he embarked on a documentary project to commemorate Emperor Charles V’s first trip to Spain at the age of 16, entitled ‘A Journey that Changed the World’.

His extensive film work led him in 2018 to make the documentary ‘Donde las manos acarician el cielo’ (Where hands caress the sky), about the Picos de Europa, a year in which he also began recording the documentary ‘Cielo, agua, tierra y metal. La vía férrea de La Fregeneda‘, premiered in March 2019 in Salamanca.

The emigration of Castilians and Leonese in the 20th century to countries on the other side of the Atlantic returns to the stage in 2019 with the short film ‘Zamoranos al son de Cuba’, a work that has not yet been released, and takes on the direction of another documentary of greater scope in terms of production, diversity of locations and number of protagonists such as ‘Cuba Crea’, where he shows through almost twenty leading figures of Cuban arts and letters an inspiring country permanently connected to artistic creativity in each and every one of its forms.

‘Héroes en el Congo‘ and the short film “Ramiro, pastor de por vida”, awarded in several international competitions, presented at the Seminci in 2022.