Julian Manrique smiles in a red jacket and wool cap, a Sony video camera on his shoulder, snowy mountains behind him.

Julian Manrique on assignment in Antarctica for WhereNext Creative in 2019

Julian Manrique

Photographer and Videographer

Julian Manrique is a photographer and videographer who has shot in more than 30 countries. He works with WhereNext DMC as a freelancer.

For more than a decade he was head of video and photo at WhereNext’s creative agency. In 2025, when the agency stopped taking new creative work to focus on the travel business, he went out on his own.

In 2019 he filmed and directed Esteban Chaves: Behind the Smile, which won an Honorable Mention in the Sports Documentary of the Year category at the Milano International FICTS Fest.

His path to WhereNext

Julian Manrique’s career
First cameraIn 2011 he won the Colombian reality show A Minute to Win It and used the prize money to buy his first camera.
At WhereNextHis first international assignment for the agency was at the andBeyond Phinda reserve in South Africa. He went on to film more than 200 videos for WhereNext Creative, on six continents.
In the JournalHis photographs appear in stories including Casa Barichara Boutique Hotel, Finca San Pedro, The Drift Experience Cartagena, and Rescuing Ocean Garbage in Colombia.

At a glance

Expertise

  • Video Production
  • Photography
  • Documentary Film

Languages

English, Spanish, and French

His photographs

A man in a straw hat climbs worn stone steps above the terraced ruins and green peaks of Machu Picchu, with a visitor behind.
Aerial view of a dirt road winding along a forested ridge above cloud, with a white SUV on the road.
A drone view of a sailboat on calm water with the high-rise skyline of the new city behind it.
Overhead drone view of the pool at Terra Azul, with a guest in a straw hat standing on the pool steps.
Three people on a mountain road, two with binoculars and one at a spotting scope, green hills and cloud behind.
Drone view of old-town clay rooftops with a domed church and a tower, and low cloud over the green hills.
A drone view of a sailboat’s deck with a tan canopy and people standing aboard, on dark green water.
Aerial view of green forested ridges with no roads under a blue sky and billowing cloud in a remote part of Antioquia.
A dark green Toyota SUV with a roof rack and spotlights drives along a gravel road through dense forest and tree ferns.
Wide view over a green valley with a river and mountains under towering clouds, from Finca San Pedro.
Drone view of the finca’s clay-tile roofs and porch among dense trees, with a man in a hat walking the veranda.

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