Carlos Mesa

Carlos Mesa holds a degree in Journalism from the UAB and a degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the UOC. He is Member No. 354 of the Ibero-American Association of Specialized and Technical Journalists (AIPET) and Member No. 2491 of the Catalan Photography Federation. He serves as President of the *Planeta Insólito* Photographic Association (Entity No. 101 of the Catalan Photography Federation), where he has been teaching photography and video courses for 14 years. He is the host of the YouTube podcast "Planeta Fotográfico," which has 16,000 subscribers. He holds diplomas in Audiovisual Production Management and Video Editing from RTVE. As an instructor, he teaches photography courses at the Jardins de la Pau civic center in El Prat de Llobregat. He won the 2019 Photo Born Gourmet award and took fourth place in a video editing contest using Filmora for the short film "Un café de muerte." In 2023, he held a photography exhibition featuring hotel staircases at Festimatge, the film and photography festival in Calella. He produced and directed the short film "El duelo" (2025) and served as camera operator for the documentary "Tras las huellas del cíclope," which premiered at the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival in 2025. He also produced and directed the short film "Fiebre del sábado metro" for Subtravelling TMB.

He has authored two books on photography: *Fotografía y vídeo con tu iPhone* and *El arte del encuadre: fotografía minimalista*.

In the realm of mystery and the unexplained, he has written nine books, most notably *Cómo se falsificó la Sábana Santa*, *Guía de la Cataluña mágica*, and *Barcelona insólita y secreta*.