About Miguel Mejía Castro

He was born in the city of Lima, Peru. In 2005 he finished his studies in journalism at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where he also studied photography at the Faculty of Art. In 2010 he joined the staff of photojournalists of the newspaper La República, where he worked as a photojournalist until 2015 and as Graphic Editor until 2017. His photographs have been published in other media such as the newspaper El Comercio (Lima), Peru 21 ( Lima), Reuters, La Tercera (Chile), El País (Spain) and The Guardian (England). He has exhibited in the Place of Memory (Lima), Palacio Cibeles (Madrid), Instituto Cervantes de Beijing (China), Pancho Fierro Municipal Art Gallery (Lima). / 2015: First place in the Ibero-American photojournalism contest POY Latam, in the News category. 2015: Honor Award for Journalistic Excellence in Photography, granted by the Inter-American Press Association (SIP).

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