ABOUT ISAAC 

Isaac H. de Lipa is a little bit of a Renaissance Person. Although he currently focus most of his efforts on making videos for nonprofits, occasionally using his talent to photograph events and weddings, his life is full of creative milestones.

As a filmmaker, Isaac has written, edited and directed two inspiring documentaries about the environmental work in Santa Barbara: Better Together, narrated by Christopher Lloyd, and Building a Movement.

Through Mercury Press International, the agency he founded with his wife, he worked as a freelance photographer and journalist, publishing in over 300 print magazines and newspapers, often covering social and environmental issues. Amy Tan, Isabel Allende, Gore Vidal, Frank Gehry, E.O. Wilson, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Antonio Banderas and many others have sat for him, The book Difference Makers features many of these portraits.

One of the highlights of his photojournalistic career is the beautiful photo essay of gay families with children published in El Mundo in 2000, which sparked a national conversation resulting in marriage and adoption equality in Spain.

Isaac also covered the early years of mountain bike racing and was a named Top Ten Photographer by Mountain Bike magazine. Santa Barbara magazine named him Best of 2014. 

He is also an accomplished artist. His paintings have been exhibited in North America and Europe. Throughout his life he has painted hundreds of self-portraits, which are used in lesson plans from Canada to the UK to Australia, and are featured in his work-in-progress book I'm Not My Face.

Isaac has also written, produced and directed four plays in collaboration with children, and is in the process of writing his first narrative screenplay.

Finally,  has designed dozens of award-winning children books and novels, and has translated a handful of books on the Maya from English to Spanish.