About Misha Vallejo

In 2014 he completed his MA in Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication. Nowadays he works as a freelance photographer and is constantly published in various media from the Americas and Europe. His work has been shown in several festivals across Europe and exhibited in Russia, Ecuador and the UK. Among others, he won the National Arts Prize Nuevo Mariano Aguilera 2015, was a finalist at the Sony World Photography Awards 2015 in the Mobile Phone category and has been awarded several honourable mentions at the FotoVisura Grant (2012, 2013, 2015).

In 2016 he published his first photo-book Al Otro Lado with Brazilian publishing house Editora Madalena. This publication was selected among the best author photobooks by the festival Les Rencontres de la Photographie 2016 in Arles, France. The photo-book also got an honorable mention at the International Prize Felifa-Fola (Argentina, 2016) and was selected as the best photography book in Brazil by the festival Féria Miolo(s) 2016.

As a tutor, he has imparted various workshops on author documentary photography and editing in Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador and Russia. He is a member of the documentary photography collective Runa Photos and is based in Quito, Ecuador.

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