Gab MEJIA

Gab MEJIA is a Filippino multimedia artist and National Geographic Explorer. His expertise goes from conservation photographer to filmmaker. Born and raised in the Philippines, he explores and weaves the different fabrics of visual storytelling, environmental design, and ecology through photography, speculative documentary, poetics, and science journalism to confront the dominant narratives of our ecological crises for socio-environmental justice.

Mejia is a Climate Pledge Global Storyteller, Fellow in the International League of Conservation Photographers, 2019 Jackson Wild Media Lab Fellow, Forbes Under 30 awardee, and has published stories and artworks about the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, indigenous knowledge, mythology, and culture in National Geographic, BBC, CNN, Vogue, United Nations, TEDx talks, among other local and global platforms, educational programs, and exhibits.

In 2023, his documentary project ‘The Passage of Storms’ was awarded global winner for the CreateCOP28 Art Competition of Art Partner and the United Nations and currently resides as a Board of Trustee for the World Wide Fund for Nature Philippines working on conservation-driven storytelling projects in the Philippines.