Francisco Riquelme-Montecinos

Francisco Riquelme-Montecinos is an architecture and portrait photographer living in Toronto.
He has received multiple awards from the GTA photography academy.
In 2016 his work was part of the Contact Festival Nikon official gallery in Toronto
In 2018 he was awarded 1st place in the 50x50 photography exhibition in celebration of George Brown College’s 50 year anniversary. The exhibit gathered some of the best photographers of the city and was part of the 2018 Contact Festival in Toronto.
In 2019 he first set up his portable studio at the Tyendinaga Pow Wow in Deseronto, Ontario, and worked on a series of in situ portraits of the dancers. Part of this work has been acquired by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Queen’s University and they are on display in their main Campus in Kingston, Ontario.
His series Toronto100Variety that depict the iconic Toronto Variety stores in a minimalistic way has been awarded 1st prize at the International Minimalist Photo Award, 2021, and has been featured online by Toronto Life magazine.
Francisco’s life began in Chile as a law graduate working on criminal matters, then continued as a kayaking guide in remote places like Patagonia, Baffin island and Greenland, hiked the entire length of the PCT; 4600 kilometres, on the mountains, from Mexico to Canada, and now he is a photographer based in his beloved city, Toronto, Canada