Camilo Leon-Quijano is a photographer and visual researcher born in Bogotá (COL). Ph.D. from the EHESS (France) he explores the intersections between Anthropology, Visual Arts and Photography.
He has been awarded with several prizes such as the Alfred Fried Photography Award 2019, the LensCulture Emerging Talent Award 2018, the Grand Prix Paris Match of Student Photoreportage 2018 the Prix du Diaporama Sonore 2017 from Libération, Diapero and Fisheye Magazine, the Robert Lemelson F. Fellowship (American Anthropological Association) and the Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology. He has been selected at the LUMIX Festival for Young Photojournalism 2018, the Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards and Lugano PhotoDays.
His work has been featured in several media such as the British Journal of Photography, The Washington Post, Fisheye Magazine, Libération, Paris Match, Le Parisien and Days Japan.
