2017

Omar Marques is a Portuguese freelance photojournalist from the northwest of Portugal. Photographing wild twin pandas in the Austrian Alps or the biggest and most evil ice maze in the world located next to the Polish Himalayas, were some of the most dangerous assignments he ever faced. Omar works as a freelance photojournalist for several news agencies on editorial and commercial assignments and has his own studio in the Polish Siberia, KRAKOW. Besides providing news coverage around Central and Eastern Europe and the Wild Balkans, he works on personal long term projects.

Was one of the first signatories of Charter 77, a document criticizing the Communist government of Czechoslovakia for not respecting human rights and later served as the group’s spokesman. He is also a founding member of CivicFORUM, a dissident movement that helped to overthrow the Communist government in Czechoslovakia. He was elected to the Federal Assembly where he joined the Foreign Affairs Committee and later became deputy minister of Foreign Affairs.