{"id":84,"date":"2025-08-15T04:20:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/federicoestol.com\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2025-12-13T18:02:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T18:02:45","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/federicoestol.com\/eng\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Uruguayan visual storyteller and social artivist. He is currently developing long-term projects that explore the relationship between cultural identity, inequality, and social justice. He is also the artistic director of the international festival SAN JOS\u00c9 FOTO, an invited professor at the University of Arts at the UNLP La Plata (Argentina), and a photobook editor at El Ministerio Ediciones (Uruguay). His work is represented by the East Wing gallery (Qatar), and he has been a Catchlight Global Fellow (USA) since 2025.<\/p>\n

Estol holds a degree in photography from the UPC-Barcelona Tech University and a diploma in popular education from the Franciscan Multiversity of Latin America. His work has received accolades such as the KG+ Select Award at Kyotographie (Japan), the Emergentes Award at the Encontros da Imagem Festival (Portugal), the Marco Pesaresi Contemporary Photography Prize (Italy), the FELIFA International Photobook Award (Argentina), the Critical Mass \u2013 Photolucida Award from the Oregon Center of Photography (USA), the Jury Award at the Lenzburg Festival (Switzerland), the Best Latin American Photobook Award from the Montevideo Photography Center (Uruguay), and the Expert Award from the Lishui Photography Museum (China).<\/p>\n

He has also been a finalist for the Paris Photo\u2013Aperture Photobook Award (France), the Global Peace Photo Award (Germany) and the Kaunas Photo Star prize (Lithuania).<\/p>\n

His photographs have been exhibited in galleries, cultural centers and festivals around the world including Les Rencontres d\u2019Arles (France), Kunsthal Art Museum (Netherlands), Format Festival (UK), Village of Photography (South Korea), Benaki Museum (Greece), Blue Sky Gallery and FotoForum Santa Fe (USA), Horikawa Oike Gallery (Japan), Photovisa (Russia), Photographic Center Nykyaika (Finland), Angkor Photo Festival (Cambodia), Getxophoto and SCAN Festival (Spain), Casa Nacional del Bicentenario (Argentina), Head On Photofestival (Australia), Cortona on the Move and MACRO Museum (Italy), Museo de la Ciudad (Mexico), Fotofestiwal Lodz (Poland), Landskrona FotoFestival (Sweden), Ras Al Khaimah Art (United Arab Emirates), Lagos Photo (Nigeria), Chennai Photo Biennale (India), Addis Foto Fest (Ethiopia), Montevideo Photography Center (Uruguay), the Photobook Museum (Germany) and GNration (Portugal).<\/p>\n

His work has also been published in media such as The Guardian, Internazionale, Die Zeit, Lento Magazine, China Newsweek Magazine, El Pa\u00eds and the Financial Times.<\/p>\n

His works are found in various private and public collections such as the IHEAL Latin American Institute of the Sorbonne University in France, the FOLA Latin American Photo Library in Argentina, the Lishui Photography Museum in China, the Fondazione Orestiadi in Italy, the Museum of the Avant-garde in Switzerland and the National Museum of Photography in Norway.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Awards, grants and distinctions obtained:\n<\/h6>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Catchlight Global Fellow EE. UU. 2025\u00a0
Grand Prix del KG+ Select Award Kyotographie, Jap\u00f3n 2025
Fotoforum Santa Fe Award 2025, USA 2025\u00a0
Preus Museum - Oslo Negativ Festival Award, Norway 2024
Marco Pesaresi Award for Contemporary Photography, Italy 2024
Jury Award of the Fotofestival Lenzburg, Switzerland 2023
Honorable mention of the Daylight Photo Awards, USA 2022
Lishui Expert Award, China 2021\u00a0
Photolucida - Blue Sky Gallery Award, USA 2021\u00a0
Finalist of the Global Peace Photo Award ,Germany 2021\u00a0
Honorable mention at the POYLATAM contest, Ecuador 2021
New Vision Award Cortona on the Move Festival, Italy 2020
Winner of the \u201cAm\u00e9rica Latina dans le Rue\u201d contest by IHEAL of the University Sorbonne, France 2020
Finalist for the Paris Photo\u2013Aperture Photobook Awards, France 2019
Nominated for the Prix PICTET, Switzerland 2019
Winner Cosmos Arles PDF Award, France 2019
Emergentes Award at the Encontros da Imagem Festival, Portugal 2019
FELIFA International Photobook Award, Argentina 2018
IILA Fotograf\u00eda Award, Italy 2016
Fotofest First Prize, Bolivia 2016
Latin American best photobook Award of the CDF, Uruguay 2013
Rural category Award at Latin American Center of Photography, Argentina 2012<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Lishui Photography Museum - China
Fondazione Orestiadi – Italia\u00a0
Museum of the Avant-garde - Switzerland\u00a0
National Museum of Photography - Norway\u00a0
IHEAL Latin American Institute of the Sorbonne University - France\u00a0
FOLA Latin American Photo Library - Argentina
Goethe Institut Montevideo - Uruguay<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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VIST<\/b><\/a><\/p>

BRITISH\u00a0 JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY\u00a0<\/b><\/a><\/p>

HUMBLE ARTS FOUNDATION<\/b><\/a><\/p>

LENS CULTURE<\/b><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Horikawa Oike Gallery, Kyoto-Japan 2025
Base Milano Cultural center, Milan-Italy 2025
Mus\u00e9e r\u00e9gional La Pulperie de Chicoutimi Quebec – Canad\u00e1 2025
Preus Museum,Oslo-Norway 2024
Benaki Museum, Athens-Greece 2024
UN Headquarters, Geneva- Switzerland 2023
Ras Al Khaimah, Al Jazeera-Emiratos \u00c1rabes Unidos 2023
Photobook Museum, Colonia-Alemania 2023
Lagos Photo Festival, Lagos-Nigeria 2023
SFO Museum, San Francisco-EE. UU 2023
Museo de la Ciudad, Quer\u00e9taro-M\u00e9xico 2023
Bienal de Fotograf\u00eda de Tucum\u00e1n, Tucum\u00e1n-Argentina 2022
Kunsthal Art Space, Rotterdam-Pa\u00edses Bajos 2022
Galer\u00eda Blue Sky, Portland-EE. UU 2021
Museo de Fotograf\u00eda, Lishui-China 2021
Art Inkubator, \u0141\u00f3d\u017a-Polonia 2021
Cortona on The Move, Cortona-Italia 2021
Festival FORMAT, Derby-Inglaterra 2021
Centro de Fotograf\u00eda CDF, Montevideo-Uruguay 2020
Espacio cultural GNration, Braga-Portugal 2020
Museo de Fotograf\u00eda y Multimedia, Tbilisi-Georgia 2019
Rencontres de la Photographie d\u00b4Arles, Arles-Francia 2019
Village of Photography, Yeongwol-Corea del Sur 2019
Getxophoto Festival, Bilbao-Espa\u00f1a 2019
Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas-Lituania 2018
MATTATOIO, Roma-Italia 2018
FOLA Fototeca Latinoamericana, Buenos Aires-Argentina 2017
Museo MACRO, Roma-Italia 2016
Addis Foto Fest, Addis Abeba-Etiop\u00eda 2016
Espacio de Arte Contempor\u00e1neo, Montevideo-Uruguay 2016
Galer\u00eda Casa Florida, Buenos Aires-Argentina 2015
Centro Fotogr\u00e1fico Nykyaika, Tampere-Finlandia 2014
Casa del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires-Argentina 2013
Oude Suikerfabriek, Groningen-Pa\u00edses Bajos 2013
Fundaci\u00f3n Pablo Atchugarry, Punta del Este-Uruguay 2011
Cabildo de Montevideo, Montevideo-Uruguay 2011<\/p>

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For exhibitions, publications, and creative collaborations, please contact the studio directly.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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fedestol@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>

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East Wing gallery director<\/p>

Peggy Sue Amison<\/p>

peg.eastwing@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>

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BIO: Fot\u00f3grafo y artivista visual uruguayo. Actualmente desarrolla proyectos a largo plazo que exploran la relaci\u00f3n entre la identidad cultural, la desigualdad y la justicia social. A su vez es director art\u00edstico del festival internacional SAN JOS\u00c9 FOTO, profesor invitado en la Facultad de Artes UNLP La Plata (Argentina) y editor de fotolibros en El […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/federicoestol.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/federicoestol.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/federicoestol.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/federicoestol.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/federicoestol.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":208,"href":"https:\/\/federicoestol.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510,"href":"https:\/\/federicoestol.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/2510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/federicoestol.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}