The international photographer Gianmarco di Costanzo visits ITER

The photographer took numerous snapshots of the ITER facilities as well as some of its researchers.

Guillermo Galván, head of ITER´s Wind Energy department, accompanied the photographer, who is preparing an article for NATURE magazine about the work of a researcher involved in wind energy.

During the visit, the head of the wind energy department showed him the various sites where they regularly conduct their work. They visited the generation control centre, viewed ITER’s five wind farms from different locations, visited and were explained the functioning of the wind tunnel, and also witnessed a test flight of a drone used for maintenance tasks on one of the wind turbines in the park.

Additionally, the visit to the ITER facilities was complemented by a tour of other installations, such as the Teide HPC supercomputer, which has been used for meteorological calculations that the department uses to obtain energy production forecasts for ITER’s wind farms.

Next Tuesday, May 21, an interview with our researcher Guillermo Galván will take place. The interview will begin with one of the photos selected by Di Costanzo and will allow the researcher to explain the work done in the ITER wind energy department.

Gianmarco Di Costanzo is a photographer, videomaker, and reporter of Italian origin. His reports and photos have been published by magazines and newspapers such as El País, Nature, La Repubblica, La Stampa, Die Zeit, Animan, HuffPost Italia, Specchio, and Green & Blue. He has covered the Morocco earthquake in 2023 and the report «The Divide» about the gap between the rich and the rest in Morocco for Oxfam International. He won the bronze in the PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2023 in the Press/Travel section for the report «Fasika, the Ethiopian Orthodox Easter.» He has collaborated with Oxfam International, Jordan Tourism Board (Visit Jordan), ICT (Costa Rican Tourism Institute), and SINAC (National System of Conservation Areas of Costa Rica). He has exhibited photographs in the collective exhibition «Tremiti: the East Archipelago» at the «Travel Literature Festival» in Rome and in the collective exhibition «A Passage to Ethiopia and Eritrea» in Asmara and Addis Ababa, and a multimedia exhibition at the Macro Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome.