Bernardo Sambra is a Peruvian conservation photographer, author, and founder whose work moves between two of the planet’s most vital and threatened ecosystems — the ocean and the Amazon. With over two decades behind the lens and 25 years of diving expeditions across the world’s oceans, he has built a singular body of work dedicated to a single purpose: revealing what we are at risk of losing.

Named one of Peru’s 40 most influential business leaders by Merco Internacional, Bernardo spent three decades in the corporate world — first at Royal Dutch Shell, where he held executive positions across commercial, project development, and international assignments in Asia, and later at Credicorp, where he specialized in human resources and cultural transformation. In 2022, he brought every one of those years to the service of conservation, co-founding Amanatari, a nonprofit under the Hochschild Group that empowers indigenous Amazon communities as active guardians of their forest. In 2004, he had already founded The Living Oceans, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting the ocean through visual storytelling.

As an author and curator, he has published three books and organized international exhibitions that brought together the world’s most acclaimed underwater photographers — including Paul Nicklen, Fabien Cousteau, and David Doubilet. His work has been published in Oceanographic, Scuba Diver, Asian Geographic, Condé Nast Traveler, X-Ray Magazine, Underwater Photography Magazine, and dozens of other publications around the world. He has spoken at Stanford University, TEDx, Duke University, and the Celebrate the Sea Festival in Singapore.

Conservation photographer · Founder · Author · Speaker