He started in photography intuitively and guided by his teenage passions, music and skateboarding. After attending the IEFC, he graduated in Photography and Digital Creation at the UPC in 1998 and received a scholarship to attend Westminster University in London.
He began to publish his first skateboard images in national skateboarding magazines. In 2000 he co-founded the magazine UNO, where he was photographer and graphic editor for several years until he left to work with international publications and leading brands for more than 20 years.
At the same time, he has also photographed the local music scene, toured with bands all over the peninsula and collaborated with various publications, production companies and record labels, publishing his images on dozens of albums.
These two facets that have marked his career have not only not prevented him from creating other types of images, both in the more commercial or professional and artistic fields, but have also helped him to create a recognisable style, very marked by black and white street photography, raw, powerful, with a strong charge of vital, emotional and poetic experience.
With the intention of publishing his first book 'Hasta la buya y volver', a diary about the life on the road of the rock band Nueva Vulcano, in 2013 he started his own publishing project 'Long Distance Runner'. In 2015 and 2021 he published the first two copies of the series 'Love Life', a work in constant growth that has so far been exhibited at the Photoalicante festival (Alicante), at Le Mur Gallery in Madrid and at the Mojäk Gallerie in Heilbronn (Germany).
Sus publicaciones se encuentran en bibliotecas públicas y colecciones de instituciones como el MACBA y tiene obra en la colección de la Fundación Vila Casas.
En 2015 cursa el Postgrado en Fotografía y Diseño Editorial en EINA y después de colaborar intermitentemente con la escuela en los siguientes años, el curso 21/22 se convierte en el profesor de la asignatura de Proyecto Fotográfico.
Selected exhibitions
2021
- Love Life
Le Mur Gallery (Madrid)
2020
- Flex your camera. La fotografía de Dischord Records (Group exhibition)
Contenedor Cultural de la UMA (Málaga).
- Premio de Fotografía Fundació Vila Casas (Group exhibition)
Museu Palau Solterra (Torroella de Montgrí)
- Love Life
Official section Photoalicante 2020 (Alicante).
2019
- Love Life
Mojäk Gallerie (Heilbronn, Germany).
2017
- Pasado Perfecto (Group exhibition)
Centro Cultural Provincial MVA (Málaga).
2010
- No me digas que nunca estuve allí
Galería Campos (Zaragoza).
- Riding Barcelona – A tale of Skate and Passion
Alberto Polo, Sem Rubio & Patxi Pardiñas. Galería ROJO (Barcelona).
2009
- The Glorious Tragedy of Youth
Alberto Polo & Sergej Vutuc. Bright Tradeshow (Frankfurt, Germany).
2008
- The Glorious Tragedy of Youth
Alberto Polo & Sergej Vutuc. Galería RAS (Barcelona).
2006
- Things that come and go bring stories that will ever stay
Basementizid Gallery (Heilbronn, Germany).
- Random Images from a man like me
Trust Nobody Gallery (Barcelona).
2003
- It’s All about Energy
La Nave (Murcia).
Individuals publications
- Love Life #2, Long Distance Runner, 2021.
- Love Life, Long Distance Runner, 2015.
- Hasta la boya y volver, La Castanya / Long Distance Runner, 2013.