Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts (UCB) and ‘Dea’ in sociology from the UPNA. Independent photographer and documentary film-maker since 1986, with a strong interest in social and political themes in his immediate cultural environment.

His work includes: ‘Jornaleros’ [Day Labourers], on the life of seasonal peasant workers in Andalusia, ‘Mujeres sin tierra’ [Women without Land], about the life of Saharan women in the refugee camps of Tinduf, for which he was awarded a FotoPres scholarship in 1994; ‘Pobres de nosotros’ [Poor Us] a collective project about marginal living in Europe; ‘Canopus’ on the Argentinean economic crisis and ‘Basque chronicles’ on the political conflict in the Basque Country.

In 2004 he published ‘El sueño de Malika’ [Malika’s Dream], for the ExploraFoto’04 festival in Salamanca which chronicles the repatriation of the body of Malika Laaroussi for burial in his home village after he died attempting to reach the Spanish coast in a small boat. He made his first documentary film on the same theme, which was selected for the official ‘Punto de Vista’ competition section in the First Edition of the International Documentary Film Festival of Navarre.

He is currently making ‘Where Memory Dwells’, a documentary essay on the work of locating, identifying and exhuming mass graves from the Spanish Civil War.

Clemente Bernad lives in Pamplona. He is a member of the Italian agency ‘Contrasto’ and works as an independent professional, teacher and article writer.