Iñaki Bergera (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1972) holds a PhD (2002) and is an architect from the University of Navarra (1997), and has been teaching architectural design as a Full Professor at the University of Zaragoza since 2008. Supported by Fundación "la Caixa", he obtained a Master's in Design Studies with Distinction from Harvard University in 2002.
He has been the main researcher of the national project “Photography and Modern Architecture in Spain” and curator of two major exhibitions on the same topic held at the ICO museum in Madrid (PHotoEspaña 2014 and PHotoEspaña 2016).
Author and editor of over twenty books (for publishers such as Abada, La Fábrica or Arquia), he has written numerous scientific articles in journals and has participated as a speaker in over twenty-five international conferences. He has been a Visiting Scholar in world-renowned institutions like the CCA in Montreal, the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, the Center of Creative Photography in Arizona, Columbia University and the International Center of Photography in New York.
In 2001, he studied photography at the Harvard School of Visual Arts with the British photographer Chris Killip, and since then, he has carried out a personal photographic work around the same research topics embodied in various individual exhibitions such as America, Urban Landscape (2006), A Tale of Two Cities (2008), In the Landscape (2010), Twentysix (Abandoned ) Gasoline Stations (Scan Tarragona 2014, PHotoEspaña 2015 and MUN 2018) and Empty Parking Spaces (Madrid-Zaragoza 2020); as well as in collective shows such as The Creation of the Contemporary Landscape (DKV-Alcobendas, 2016) or Unfinished (Venice Biennial, 2016). He is represented by the gallery La Casa Amarilla in Zaragoza.
Starting with his own practice in collaboration with Iñigo Beguiristain, he began to receive professional architectural photography commissions, and his series has been published on prestigious professional international media like METALOCUS, Casabella, A10, Wallpaper, The Architects' Journal, Dezeen, Detail, Arquitectura Viva, and Baunetz.
