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ABOUT

I was born in Lima, Peru, in 1968, into an artistic family.  My early education was at a private religious school in a country marked by political and social unrest. I initially pursued architecture faculty for two years.  However, I made a pivotal decision to switch careers and follow my passion by joining the photography staff at the prestigious weekly newsmagazine, Caretas in Lima.

My time at Caretas was formative, refining my photography skills, blending them with the visual concepts of press photography, and adapted swiftly to unpredictable situations.  During this period, my appreciation for individuals' stories deepened, emphasizing journalistic ethics amidst societal turbulence.  At the time, I was awarded the Rey de España prize in journalistic photography.

Subsequently, I worked at Peru's leading newspaper, El Comercio, as both a photographer and photo editor for ten years. Afterwards, I collaborated with the EFE news agency for seven years.  Simultaneously, I was Professor of Photojournalism in Universities over 15 years, as well as delivered photographic workshops and seminars.

In 1998, my first solo exhibition summarized a decade of press photography. It spurred my exploration of Identity, Modernity, and Nation as conceptual pillars for future projects, including global personal exhibitions and undertaken diverse photographic projects for media, corporate and industries, emphasizing culture.

Currently, I reside in Perú, where I pursue commissioned and personal projects.

PUBLISHINGS

2024    The Heart of Las Bambas, editorial manager, photo editor and photographer, commissioned by MMG, Las Bambas mining company.

2016    Las Bambas Perú, editorial manager, photo editor and photographer, commissioned by MMG, Las Bambas mining company.

2016    Banderas II, photo editor and researcher, commissioned by Amtex.

2015    Medellín, photo editor and researcher, commissioned by Amtex.

2014    Chumbivilcas Lazos de Oro, editorial manager, photo editor and photographer, commissioned by Hudbay.

2014    La Travesía del Delfin, direction, photo editor and photographer, commissioned by Delfin Amazon Cruise.

2014    Banderas I, photo editor and researcher, commissioned by Amtex.

2013    Brazil, photo editor and researcher, commissioned by Amtex.

2012    Horizontal / Vertical, photo editor, photographer and researcher, commissioned by BBVA.

2012    La Mesa De Sara, editorial manager, commissioned by Odebrecht.

2011    Peru+Brasil, Sabor a Futuro, editorial manager, commissioned by Odebrecht.

2010    30 Years of Odebrecht in Peru, editorial manager, commissioned by Odebrecht.

2010    Transandino, photographer, commissioned by TGP.

2007    Passion for People, Tour around Lima, Cuzco and Iquitos, editorial manager, commissioned by BBVA.

2006    Lima Polis, Visions And Versions Begining the 21st Century, collaborated with photographs of Retratos Callejeros 2002, La Moderna Publications.

2006    Mucho Gusto Perú, photo editor, photographer, and researcher, commissioned by El Comercio newspaper and Promperu.

1993    El Perú Emergente, collaborated with photographs, El Comercio newspaper publication.

CLIENTS

Nestle / BBVA / Glencore / Sodexo / Red Bull / Llorente & Cuenca / Endesa / Barrick / Ford Foundation / Efe / Kimberly-Clarck / Soletanche Bachy /  Freyssinet / Cemex / Btg Pactual / Amtex / Mmg / Gold Fields / Tecno Fast / Apm Terminals / Xstrata / Hudbay / U. Lima / Caretas / Upc / Perubar / Toronja / Pucp / Antapaccay / El Comercio / U. Pacifico / Upn / Cosas / Yanacocha / Gestión / Number 6 / Metrica / Promperu / Rimac / Mtc / Jjc / Miraflores Municipality / Andino Investment Holding/ Lima Municipality / Antamina / Neptunia / Las Bambas / Los Quenuales / Mmg / Cdh / Edelnor / Petroperu / D'onofrio / Axis / Los Portales / Odebrecht / Señor Limon / Tgp / Delfin Cruise The Amazon / Thimble / Rocsa / Edegel / Sapisco / Sacyr / Sbs / Kallpa.

AWARDS

2007    Best exhibition of the year; Passion for people, held in the Miraflores Central Park in Lima, Luces Award, organized by El Comercio      newspaper, Lima-Peru.

2007    Special Gourmand Award for the members of the staff in photography, design, and texts of the boof; Peru Mucho Gusto, published by El  Comercio newspaper and Promperu, award organized by Gourmand Book Cook Award, Beijing, China.

2003    Award for graphic edition and design for the cultural weekly El Dominical, published by El Comercio newspaper, organized by The Society for Newspapers Design, United States.

2000    Pasaporte para un artista (Passport for an artist), Visual arts contest, award organized by the French government In Peru.

1995    Caretas photo award, Honorable Mention, organized by the political news magazine Caretas, Lima Peru.

1994    Caretas photo award, Honorable Mention, organized by the political news magazine Caretas, Lima Peru.

1991    Rey de España Award (King of Spain) In Journalism Photography Speciality, organized by Spanish Agency for International                    Development Cooperation, EFE news agency and Spain government, Madrid / Spain.

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2019    Illa, Persistencia Vital, March-May, Ricardo Palma Cultural Center of Miraflores City Hall, Lima Perú.

2017    Works made between 1998 and 2013, Photographic Space Carlos Caamaño, Barranco, Lima, Peru.

2012    Street Portraits 2002, El Virrey bookstore, june 20 to july 20, Lima, Peru.

2012    Sujeto de Derecho, Stories About Inclusion, at Casa Rimac, First Photography Biennial, Lima, Peru.

2003    Street Portraits 2002 at campus of Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas (Upc), Lima, Peru.

2003    Street Portraits, photographic performance and public exhibition at the Central Park, Miraflores, Lima, Peru.

2003    Street Portraits 2002, at Reducto Park Gallery Miraflores. Lima, Peru.

2002    Street Portraits, photographic performance and public exhibition in the Lima´s Central Market, Peru.

1999    Real World, at La Funarte Cultural Center, Sao Paulo Photography Biennial, Brasil.

1998    Real World, at L’imaginaire Gallery, Lima, Peru.

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

2024    Photo London, at Somerset House, with Carlos Caamaño: Photographic Project Gallery, 16 –19 May, London, United Kingdom.

2023    Photo London, at Somerset House, with Carlos Caamaño: Photographic Project Gallery, 10 –14 May, London, United Kingdom.

2023    Andean Modernities / Contemporary Art: Cultural Transformation in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, at Becker Gallery, Bowdoin College Museum Of Art, Brunswick, January 19 to March 5, Maine, United States. 

2021    Foto República, In the Framework of the Bicentennial, at Martín Yépez Gallery, Lima, Peru.

2020    Don't look at me, don't touch me. Viral spectrum of the XXI century, Miraflores Municipality.

2019    Fotografías III, at Espacio Fotográfico, Carlos Caamaño: Photographic Project Gallery, Barranco, Lima Perú.

2018    Lima Photo, at Salazar Park, with Carlos Caamaño: Photographic Project Gallery, 22 - 26 August, Miraflores, Lima, Peru.

2018    All Bloods (Todas las Sangres), at Juan Pablo Heeren Gallery, ICPNA, Lima, Peru.

2018    Under the Museum lens, at MASM, San Marcos Museum of Arts, Lima, Peru.

2018    Artlima, at Hight School of War, Peru Army, with Carlos Caamaño: Photographic Project Gallery, 19 - 22 April, Chorrillos, Lima, Peru.

2017    Family Album, at University of Lima Cultural Center, Surco, Lima, Peru.

2017    11 Photographers/11 Projects, at  Juan Pablo Heeren Gallery, ICPNA, June 13 to May 4, Lima, Peru.

2017    The World is Beautiful, at Carlos Caamaño: Photographic Project Gallery, 20 - 23 April, Barranco, Lima, Peru.

2016    From Daguerreotype to Selfie, a history of Peruvian photographic portraits, at Germán Krüger Espantoso Gallery, ICPNA, Miraflores, Lima, Peru.

2016    Comparart, at Culture Center of the Ministry of Culture, February 19 to April 30, San Borja, Lima, Peru.

2015    PARC, Art Fair at Museum of Contemporary Art, with Carlos Caamaño: Photographic Project Gallery, 22 - 26 april, Barranco, Lima, Peru.

2014    Fotofever, Art Fair at Louvre Museum, 14 - 16 November, Paris, France

2014    Landscapes In Between, at Titilaka Gallery, with Carlos Caamaño: Photographic Project Gallery, Barranco, Lima, Peru.

2014    Artlima, at Hight School of War, Peru Army, with Carlos Caamaño: Photographic Project Gallery, 20 - 23 March, Chorrillos, Lima Peru.

2014    Lima Photo, at Photography Center, with Carlos Caamaño: Photographic Project Gallery, 6 -10 August, Miraflores, Lima, Peru.

2013    Artlima, at Hight School of War, Peru Army, with Carlos Caamaño: Photographic Project Gallery, 25 - 28 April, Chorrillos, Lima, Peru.

2013    Lima Photo, at Photography Center, with Carlos Caamaño: Photographic Project Gallery, 8 – 11 August, Miraflores, Lima, Peru.

2012    Fifty years of the Ford Foundation in Latin America, photo exhibition, Bogotá, Colombia.

2012    Ruined Landscape, art intervention at casona Casimiro Ulloa, with Carlos Caamaño: Photographic Project Gallery, May 23 to June 10, Miraflores, Lima, Peru.

2011    Predicate & Subject, at Vertice Gallery, November10 to December 2, Lima, Peru.

2011    Memory of Iquitos, at Casa de America, Latin America cultura center, Madrid, Spain.

2011    Tal como Somos, 25 años de reportajes (As we are, 25 years of reportage), at Pancho Fierro Gallery, 2 - 30 November, Lima, Peru.

2011    Machu Pictures, at Hotel Inka Terra, Aguas Calientes, Cuzco, Perú.

2010    Recíclame (Recruit), at Image Center, January 29 to February 11, Miraflores, Lima, Peru.

2008    Efe agency presence in Peru, Photographic exhibition at the Jiron de la Union rambla, in the Lima center, Peru.

2007    Passion for people, 60 photographers exhibit at Miraflores Central Park the results of the photographic project; Lima, Cuzco and Iquitos in 24 hours. Lima, Peru.

2006    Festival de la Luz (Festival of Light), photo festival in museums, art galleries and streets in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2006    Retratos Callejeros 2002 (Street Portraits), at Nuestra Señora Del Carmen Hight School, Miraflores, Lima, Peru.

2006    Sombras de la Luz (Shadows Of Light), Espacio Patiño, La Paz Bolivia.

2006    Vía Satelite, perspectives of photography and video in contemporary Peru, at Centro Cultural de España, March 7 to April 5, Santiago de Chile.

2006    Passion for people, 25 photographers exhibit at MAP, Museo de Arte Pre-colombino, the results of the photographic project; Cuzco in 24 hours, Lima, Peru.

2006    Vía Satelite, perspectives of photography and video in contemporary Peru, at Museum of Arts And Contemporary Design, May 19 to July 7, Costa Rica

2006    Rostros de la Nación (Faces of a Nation), at Banco de la Nación Gallery, Cuzco, Peru.

2005    Vía Satelite, perspectives of photography and video in contemporary Peru, at Centro Cultural de España, November 23, 2005 to February 12, 2006, D.F. Mexico.

2005    Vía Satelite, perspectives of photography and video in contemporary Peru, at Espacio de la Fundacion Telefonica, April 15 to June 12, B.S. Argentina

2005    Passion for people, 25 photographers exhibit at BBVA Gallery and Tarata rambla, the results of the photographic project; Lima in 24 hours, Lima, Peru.

2005    Desatorador, photos of Emilio Santisteban's artistic action in the city of Lima, Peru.

2005    Vía Satelite, perspectives of photography and video in contemporary Peru, at Centro Cultural de España, May 18 to June17, Lima, Peru.

2005    Mirate, El Comercio newspaper exhibition, at Juan Pablo Heeren Gallery, ICPNA, May 4 to May 29, Lima Peru.

2004    Vía Satelite, perspectives of photography and video in contemporary Peru, at Centro Cultural de España, Montevideo, December 1, 2004 to January 29, 2005, Montevideo,­ Uruguay.

2004    Con Efe de Foto, the best of the year of the Efe press agency, at Plaza El Regocijo, Cuzco, Peru.

2004    Con Efe de Foto, the best of the year of the Efe press agency, at Miraflores Central Park, Lima, Peru.

2003    XII international cultural festival, photo exhibition at the Cueva Bar, July 11 to august 2 Tena's Valley, Huesca, Spain

2003    Best Exhibitions of the year, at Reducto Park Gallery, Miraflores, Lima, Peru.

2003    Third Visual Arts Festival of Barranca, Perú.

2002    Instant Photo, Ojo Ajeno Gallery, Photography Center, Miraflores, Lima, Peru.

2001     First Visual Arts Festival of Barranca, Peru.

2000     Primavera de los Derechos Humanos (Spring Of Human Rights), at Juan Pablo Heeren Gallery, ICPNA, Miraflores, Lima, Peru.

2000     Pasaporte para un Artista (Passport for an Artist), Visual Arts Award Exhibition, at CCPUCP, organized by the French Government in Lima, Peru.

1999     Pasaporte Para Un Artista (Passport For An Artist), Visual Arts Award Exhibition, at CCPUCP, organized by the French Government in Lima, Peru.

1997    11 Años De Tafos (Tafos 11 Years), Social Photography Workshop, Lima, Peru.

1995    Caretas Magazine’s Photo Awards, exhibition of winning photos, Lima, Peru.

1994    ¿Quieres estar conmigo? (Do you want to be with me?), Instituto Cultural Peruano Británico, Miraflores, Lima, Peru.

1994    Caretas Magazine’s Photo Awards, exhibition of winning photos, Lima, Peru.

1991    Exponen (Expose), Bar Indio, Miraflores, Lima, Peru.

1991    Algunas Fotografías (Some Photographs), Ricardo Palma University, Lima, Peru.

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