Mariano Grueiro is a writer, photographer, filmaker and artist.

He was born in 1975 in Naron , Galicia ( northwest of Spain), growns up in Ferrol at the eighties, in the middle of the galician naval crise. His first photographic work is dated between 1996 and 1999, people in Compostela, a photographic essay about Santiago de Compostela, and next to this is the galician coast (1999).

As writer, he started to write at 1994 different essays about Galician society, and Wildliza, a book with a compilation of this essays (2001).

As filmaker, awaking of the nightmare, a work about the great galician protest of 1-12-2002, is his most famous work.