Gab Mejia is a queer Filipino conservation photographer, filmmaker, multimedia artist, and National Geographic Explorer. Born and raised in the Philippines, he explores and weaves the different fabrics of visual storytelling, environmental design, and ecology through photography, speculative documentary, poetics, and science journalism to confront the dominant narratives of our ecological crises for socio- environmental justice.

Mejia is a Climate Pledge Global Storyteller, Regeneration Leader of the Prince Albert II Foundation in Monaco, Fellow in the International League of Conservation Photographers, 2019 Jackson Wild Media Lab Fellow, Forbes Under 30 Awardee, and has published stories and pieces about the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, indigenous knowledge, mythology, and culture in National Geographic, BBC, CNN, ATMOS Earth, Art Partner, Vogue, United Nations, Photo London, TEDx talks, among other local and global platforms, educational programs, and exhibits to forward conversations and queer solutions amid climate change.

For more than five years, he has been working for the conservation of wetlands and the creative cultures that depend on them particularly in the Agusan Marshlands with the Manobo indigenous people in the Philippines, where has co-created participatory conservation-driven storytelling projects with National Geographic Society and the UNESCO National Commission to establish the Agusan Marshlands as a heritage park.

In 2023, his documentary project ‘The Passage of Storms’ was awarded global winner for the CreateCOP28 Art Competition of Art Partner and the United Nations. He currently resides as a Board of Trustee for the World Wide Fund for Nature Philippines working on conservation-driven storytelling projects in the Philippines.