13 The Gallery

Specialties

Limited edition photographic prints and fine art

Affordable art and crafts (including furniture design and construction with recycled materials)

Photography studio (weddings, vintage/​camara obscura photography, family portraits, models/​actors portfolios)

Professional printing with pigments

Graphic and interior design

History

Established in 2012.

Born in 1973 in Havana, Cuba, after a well-​established and extensive career in his homeland as a professional photographer and journalist, Gortazar came to London in the summer of 2009. A year later, following seven international exhibitions, he opened his studio-​gallery in the unique Latin American and Caribbean Seven Sisters Indoor Market. A further year and with five more international exhibitions, he was expanding his business to the local high street, in Newington Green. A serious accident Gortazar suffered in Sri Lanka slowed down the renovation of the decaying space that he has successfully turned into 13 The Gallery.

Meet the Business Owner

Gortazar A.

Business Owner

Based in London and previously in Havana, as a professional photographer for the last fifteen years, Gortazar has experience in a wide variety of fields including photographic directing, editing and publishing in a magazine; working in the fashion industry, doing catwalk, studio and location photography; preparing, curating and setting up exhibitions; as official photographer for events of different kinds, e.g. political, business, entertainment, weddings; and photography of nature, both landscapes and wildlife.

Although photography remains his main occupation, in the last few years he has expanded his creativity in the field of marketing and graphic design and has recently taken on interior design and restoration and recycling materials to make unique pieces of furniture.