Uruguayan photographer, graduated from the Image and Multimedia Technology Center of Politechnic University of Cataluña - BarcelonaTech. He is currently working as artistic director of SAN JOSÉ FOTO festival, promoting the Photobook Club Montevideo and as editor of El Ministerio Ediciones publishing house. His works and publications are in various private and public collections such as the FOLA Latin American Photo Library in Buenos Aires, Tate Modern in London, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Museu da Fotografia in Fortaleza and the Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum. He has received several awards, grants and scholarships, recently honoured with the Latin American Photobook award by CDF of Montevideo 2014, the IILA Fotografía award in Rome 2016, FELIFA International photobook award 2018, the Cosmos Arles PDF Award and the Discovery Award at Encontros da Imagem Portugal 2019. Nominee for Prix PICTET , the Paris Photo–Aperture Photobook Award in 2019 and the Meitar Award 2020
This fun, collaborative graphic novel photobook from La Paz, Bolivia, presents the city’s 3,000 shoe shiners as heroes with superpowers who help all of local humanity.
