Born in Havana, Cuba, Rafael de la Uz is an award-winning photographer and film producer,specializing in documentary storytelling. He has produced films for HBO, PBS, Discovery and TVE and has collaborated as a photographer with such publications as The Brooklyn Rail, FernMagazine, and Revolucion y Cultura. Currently based in Alaska, de la Uz is working on storiesabout the relationship between human behavior and the natural ecosystem. His latest work is aseries of films produced for Oceana about protecting the waters of the Cook Inlet from threatsposed by offshore drilling.