Born and raised in Barcelona, Spain, Tino Soriano divides his work between photojournalism and travel photography. He has been honored with numerous national and international awards from groups such as World Press Photo, UNESCO, and FotoPres. In 2004 Mexican President Vicente Fox personally handed Soriano the trophy for the Lente de Plata award, which is given to the best story on Mexico published throughout the world. Soriano is the author of the books Travel Photography, Dalí, 1903-2003, The Other Barcelona, Banyoles, and The Future Exists, and he has also participated in projects such as Hospital de Bellvitge 25 anys, Discover Spain, Images of Catalonia, and World's Great Train Journeys, the last three published by the National Geographic Society. He has recently provided the photography for the National Geographic Traveler Guidebooks Sicily, Madrid, Portugal, and Naples and Southern Italy. Since 1978, he has regularly lectured and taught workshops at many universities in Spain. His work has appeared in National Geographic magazine, GEO, Merian, Der Spiegel, Los Angeles Times, Smithsonian magazine, Paris Match, Jano, La Repubblica, La Vanguardia, and El País Seminal, as well as in many other publications.