Ivan Blanco Vilar is a Swiss-born, Galician-rooted documentary filmmaker, photographer and urban sketcher based in Nice, France. With over 15 years of experience across international corporate communications, NGO advocacy, e-mobility and sports media, he has built his practice around one consistent principle: shine a light on the people who make things happen. He has covered events from offshore energy platforms to UN ocean conferences, from professional cycling races to electric micromobility projects across Europe. He shoots on both digital and analog film, sketches in the streets whenever he can, and speaks seven languages.
The worst part of any great experience, event or trip, is that eventually it will end… but it’s also a way to look forward to new and exciting ones, as well as, more than 3h sleep. Honestly, the last day of the Symposium brought a touch of nostalgia, the kind that makes one already long […]
After 2 very sketchful days outside, and 2 very editful nights with only 3h sleep on each, on the third Symposium day, no no, I didn’t sleep in, despite my eyelids begging me to, this day I actually focused on something that is as essential to a Symposium, as the workshops and location. The first […]
On your sketchbooks, pencils up and let your artistic eyes run wild! Any athletic connotations of how the 2nd day of the symposium began, is pure coincidence, however the hundreds of eager sketchers and the volunteers keeping high the workshop signs to keep together each group, did indeed accomplish some athletic performances, crossing Toulouse’s town […]
With my Spanish jersey nicely tucked into my suitcase, I’ve arrived for the first time to Toulouse, and to crowds of Frenchmen and women cheering their country against… mine. Crossing streets with terraces filled with football fans, and trying to regain my hotel, that’s how my first ever Urban Sketchers Symposium started. On arrival, just […]