Omar Vega is an award winning graphic designer and self-taught photographer. Born in Glendale, California into a loud, loving and messy immigrant Cuban family — he now lives in Boston, Massachusetts. As a photographer, it's his love and adoration for the spontaneity of human behavior that forms the foundation for his work. He strives to capture those glimmering, ephemeral moments — the ones that happen so quickly that you just almost miss them. To Omar, photography is catching — in that split-second of the shutters release — the essence of someone or some place. Seeing our sad, messy, beautiful world loud and clear are his primary motivations. His professional life has taken him far and wide, from Hong Kong to Boston, on a path that looks like this: MIAMI HERALD > THE HARTFORD COURANT > ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION > WALL STREET JOURNAL ASIA > ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION > GANNETT DESIGN STUDIO > THE BOSTON GLOBE