Julio Etchart

Julio Etchart grew up in Uruguay and later settled in Britain, where he worked in community videography at the Theatre Workshop in Edinburgh and studied Documentary Photography at Newport Art College in Wales. He has travelled round the world for the international press and has produced multimedia materials and touring exhibitions for many charities and NGOs.

Among various awards, he is a recipient of a World Press Photo First Prize for the environment, which led him to work on a long term project on ecological issues for the European Union. He has five photo-books published, the latest being 'Imagining Orwell in Three continents' by Just Press, with a foreword by Robert McCrum.

Julio is represented by the Panos Pictures agency in London.