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The project arrives at the world's leading photography festival and was exhibited to the public at Le Nuit de la Photographie.
CatchLight introduced the recipients of the 2025 CatchLight Global Fellowship during a special announcement at the Visual Storytelling Summit, held in San Francisco, USA.
In addition, his work has been selected for Latin American Panorama, one of the exhibitions at the ninth edition of the PhotoVogue Festival, which will be held in Milan from March 6 to 9, 2025.
Ten artists were selected by an international jury to exhibit their work at the Horikawa Oike Gallery in Japan.
The Pulperie de Chicoutimi – Musée régional will host an exhibition of several international artists in the city of Saguenay, Quebec.
Federico Estol is a jury member for the open categories, which are designed to showcase visual projects that explore new narrative forms, from conceptual experimentation to the use of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.
The activities of the exhibition “From concept to matter / Fotolibros de las CdF Ediciones”were held with authors who are part of this exhibition, to share processes, creative decisions and experiences related to the editing of their works.
The project solo show at the SI Fest photography festival throughout the month of September in the city of Savignano sul Rubicone.
During the three weeks of the festival, visitors can enjoy an exciting program in one of Montpellier's most beautiful exhibition spaces, the Pavillon Populaire.
His work Shine heroes was exhibited at the prestigious event dedicated to photography in South Asia.
Fellowship mentor in South Africa
Reimagining African Narratives is a six-month photography fellowship that promotes responsible collaboration from an African perspective, organized by EAST WING for NEWF.
The National Museum of Photography in Norway welcomes the project created by 60 lustracalzados de Hormigón Armado and Federico Estol and invites them to give an artist talk at the Oslo Negativ festival.
El proyecto será exhibido en Suiza y se realizará una intervención urbana de gran formato en la vía pública.
The Uruguayan photographer and visual artist will be at FIFV 2024 to lead a creative workshop that aims to engage the community, where 10 photographers and visual producers will collaborate with 10 residents of the neighborhood to create a narrative together.
The festival featured renowned photographers such as Greta Alfaro, Clare Strand, Federico Estol, Thierry Ardouin, Emma Sarpaniemi, and many more. The program included a total of 17 exhibitions with artists from 19 countries.
Established in 1994, the Joop Swart Masterclass is World Press Photo's best-known educational program for emerging photographers in the field of documentary photography, photojournalism, and visual storytelling.
Federico Estol wins prestigious award at SI Fest festival in Savignano, Italy
Shine heroes in the contemporary collection at Switzerland's leading international landmark for avant-garde art
Shine Heroes showcase at Athens Photo Festival, a biennial international event dedicated to celebrating photography and visual culture.
The revealed city, explorations of the urban environment is the concept behind the Catalan photography festival.
The award-winning photobook Héroes del Brillo is presented in an innovative exhibition in the city of Cologne, creating an urban fairy tale halfway between fashion and activist social reporting.
This year's theme at Africa's leading photo festival is “Fundamental State: Companionship Within the Mysterious,” bringing together photographic works that explore the present moment and visualize repair, restitution, and restoration.
East Wing is a gallery located in Doha and Berlin for contemporary image makers, showcasing a fascinating group of emerging and established artists working in photography from around the world.
Shine Heroes were exhibited for six months in Terminal 3 of the Californian airport.
Shine Heroes was exhibited in the former pearl farming village turned art gallery located in Al Jazeera Al Hamra.
The festival that turns José Ignacio into an open-air art gallery
This exhibition is co-produced by PUNTO DE FUGA Bogotá and Fiebre Photobook, which included Héroes del Brillo in its selection of Latin American photobooks.
The project published on the prominent cultural platform specializing in the creation and dissemination of current content in the arts and publishing sector.
The Shine Heroes will be on display at Zontinga Hub in Malaysia.
The exhibition was the culmination of a global campaign to raise awareness of the Institute's mandate to overcome inequality and ensure that inclusion and justice are at the heart of development thinking, policies, and practices. A total of 39 artists, representing 23 countries from six regions, were selected to present their work in Geneva over a two-week period.
We spoke with Uruguayan photographer Federico Estol, member of the World Press Photo 2023 jury and co-author of the photobook Héroes del brillo.
Until May 29, discover five artists from the Circulation(s) festival in a new setting at nine stations across the RATP network.
Exhibitions and workshops at the Angkor Photo Festival, the most important event in South Asia
Federico Estol will be a member of the jury for the most important international photojournalism award for a period of six weeks between January and February 2023.
In a one-of-a-kind production workshop led by Federico Estol and Sara Wayra, 32 hours on the tracks, 45 photographers traveled the route in search of stories.
Arturo Soto talks with Federico Estol about his philosophy as an artivist and the role of photography in social transformation.
The Shine heroes arrive at the Circulation(s) festival and are exhibited in the French capital.
Special publication of the project in the German magazine dedicated to photobooks.
The Shine Heroes exhibited in an expanded retrospective of the project for the Dutch public
The US organization reviews the Héroes del Brillo project on the occasion of the Critical Mass Award.
Blue Sky gallery is pleased to announce Federico Estol as the winner of our Critical Mass solo exhibition award in the United States.
The Shine Heroes displayed at the famous Bondi Beach in Sydney
We are pleased to announce several awards from the Lishui Photography Festival: Daisy Noyes, Nature Strip; Federico Estol, Shine Heroes; and Ingmar Bjorn Nolting, Measure and Middle, have been awarded the Expert Recommended Photographers Award.
The Italian festival will showcase the project in the city of Cortona, selected in the New Visions category.
The Héroes del Brillo series recognized in Latin America's most important image competition
From among 1,029 projects, the international jury selected the works of seven artists, whose projects will be on display during Poland's largest image-focused festival. Among the finalists is the project Shine Heroes by Federico Estol and Hormigón Armado.
The series on the struggle of Bolivian shoe shiners at the most important photography festival in England
Solo exhibition of the Shine Heroes project for six months at the headquarters of Uruguay's leading photography institution.
The publication was recognized with the prestigious IPA International Photography Award.
Shine On is the title of the interview about the creative process of the photographer alongside the Héroes del Brillo.
For several editions, we nominated the best Latin American talent for the prestigious Dutch award.
The multimedia artwork presented at Night of Photography 2019—the central event of Tbilisi Photo Festival—was integrated into the Georgian National Museum.
Conversation with Eefje Ludwig to discuss the process behind the Héroes del Brillo project
Héroes del Brillo selected as one of the ten best of the year and exhibited at Paris Photo.
The Portuguese festival recognized the project as the winner of the award that supports new innovative perspectives on the world of photography.
The Héroes del Brillo project was exhibited in the Finnish capital for the main event dedicated to photography in the Nordic country.
The series about Bolivian shoe shiners and their fight against discrimination was reviewed by the British media.
The other book I love is Shine Heroes by Federico Estol. It was nominated for the Aperture Award, and deservedly so. Federico is a Uruguayan photographer who created this series in Bolivia about shoe shiners.
The images from the project carried out in collaboration with Bolivian shoe shiners will be exhibited at the school in the city of Getxo and on the Metro on the way to Bilbao.
Italian media selection of the best photography publications in 2019
Winds of change in the logic of photobook production and circulation in Latin America. Review of the publication. Héroes del brillo by Federico Estol, co-published by the street newspaper Hormigón Armado and El Ministerio Ediciones, winner of the 2018 FELIFA International Award.
The exhibition in Rome presents the Italian capital as a hub of human traffic, generating the first urban tribes in history and always traversed by multiple nations since time immemorial.
Together with the LensCulture platform, we organized the first international PhotoVisa Photobook award and the photo book Héroes del Brillo selected among the 10 best in the world.
The 6×6 Global Talent Program highlights six visual storytellers from six regions of the world in an ongoing process of nomination and selection by experts from the photography industry.
Report on the exhibition held in the mountains of the Verzasca Valley during the photography festival in Ticino, Switzerland.
The Uruguayan photographer brings the Romanian public closer to life in the suburbs of La Paz and El Alto, where more than 3,000 shoe shiners take to the streets every day in search of customers. The exhibition can be visited at the Platinia Shopping Center.
Uruguayan photographer Federico Estol photographed some of them and their work for the project “Héroes del brillo” to dispel the stigma attached to this profession.
Verónica Sanchiz Becomo interviews Federico Estol about his new project Shine Heroes for the international photography platform.
Federico Estol (Uruguay) gana con el proyecto «Héroes del brillo» la IX edición del Premio IILA-FOTOGRAFÍA , dedicado a fotógrafos latinoamericanos menores de 35 años.
This was decided by the jury, composed of Barbara Martusciello (art critic and curator), Alessandro Vasari (photographer), Costantino D'Orazio (art critic and curator), and chaired by Marco Delogu, artistic director of the Festival, and Rosa Jijón, cultural secretary of the IILA, met at the Institute's headquarters on October 13 and unanimously selected the finalists and winner from among the 330 projects submitted.
The photographic publication selected among the 100 best in Latin America is currently on display at the Aperture Foundation in New York.
The Héroes del Brillo project, winner of the most important photography festival in the city of La Paz, Bolivia, is on display at the Tambo Quirquincho Museum.
The project participated with a screening at the Photonic Moments event at the Slovenian Photography Center 2017.
Federico Estol won the competition that pays tribute to the best work being created in Latin America today. AI-AP, known for 38 years as the exclusive resource for art directors, designers, photo editors, art buyers, and publishers, seeks to introduce established and emerging Latin American illustrators and photographers, as well as students, to the North American market, and vice versa, in a global and multicultural exchange of art and ideas.
Publication on the tax haven activities and pirate identity of the Cayman Islands in Ireland's most important platform collection
Federico Estol talks to us about his interest in photobooks, his influences, and his latest project, Treasure Island.
In a dark and freezing climate, under bombardment, the 12th edition of the Aleppo International Photography Festival began in the Dead City of Aleppo. From January 18 to 24, 2015.
The message was very clear: we are still alive, and Aleppo, after four years of war, still has an active civil society that we must protect from global politicians who try to hide this side of the war behind big names and publicity.
Thanks to all the photographers who help us focus on the issues and who, through the festival, strive to protect the civic life of our city as much as possible.
The Educardo Victor Haedo scholarship from the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC Uruguay) supports participation in a portrait workshop with Alessandra Sanguinetti (Magnum Photos) at the International School of Photography in Latvia, “Narrative Portraiture.”
Uruguayan photographer Federico Estol published the photobook "Treasure Island," in which he depicts life in the Cayman Islands: the festivals that celebrate its pirate past, as well as the banks and companies that make it one of the largest tax havens. Estol told 180 that the project was an opportunity to merge the island's origins with its present-day identity.
The Backlight Photo Festival 2014 continues the triennial tradition by focusing on social themes: the relationships between individuals, communities, and societies. Backlight ’14 aims to provide, both thematically and functionally, a platform for research and discussion on trust, and how trust and dependencies create tensions and shape cohesion in modern societies.
The Treasure Island project reviewed on the English international photojournalism platform FOTO8, the home of photojournalism in England
Guillermo Baltar talks about the Treasure Island project exhibited at ESPACIO FOTO Club Uruguayo. The author's poetics generates a universe as reflective as it is corrosive in its foundations. His records—and evocations—are established from an inquisitorial perspective of realities and appearances.
TNU's "La mañana" program conducts an interview about the Cayman Islands tax haven exhibition.
Noorderlicht is an international photography festival held in the north of the Netherlands, primarily in the provinces of Groningen and Friesland. Held in various locations and sometimes in other Dutch provinces, the festival features exhibitions of visual photography and visual culture, addressing themes of social and environmental relevance.l
His latest work, entitled Treasure Island, is on display at Café la Diaria until October 31, 2013, as part of Fotograma 2013. It is presented to us as the story of the Cayman Islands, a true tax haven, created from scratch for this activity and with great influence in the international financial world, a small island of 50,000 inhabitants and 500 banks. Curious about this work but taking the opportunity to delve deeper into his work in general, we contacted Federico, who joined Clic -fotografía, el ciclo de fotógrafos de COOLTIVARTE.
The exhibition will be open to visitors from Friday, August 2, at the Ciudad Vieja open-air photo gallery (Piedras, opposite the Carnival Museum square). “Hello Montevideo” is an exhibition by Uruguayan photographer Federico Estol, which draws parallels between the two Montevideos: the capital of Uruguay and the US city in the state of Minnesota.
"Treasure Island," by Uruguayan photographer Federico Estol, presents his vision of two situations taking place simultaneously in the Cayman Islands: Pirates Week—a national holiday evoking the times when pirates and buccaneers hid their treasures on the island—and the financial business world that plays out daily in the same space. In this interview, the author discusses the specifics of the development of this work, its presentation as a photobook, and its differences with his previous projects.
Interview in the context of the Hello Montevideo exhibition at the Montevideo City Hall and the photobook published with the city of Montevideo Minnesota.
Federico Estol interviewed by BBC World for winning first prize in the global photography contest commemorating the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Alzheimer's disease..
In addition to preparing their book, in which they will reveal the secrets of Uruguay's 50 most representative festivals through testimonies and images, Federico Estol and Antonio Di Candia are compiling an inventory of intangible heritage at the request of the Uruguayan Heritage Commission.
