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Jaime Travezan

In 2013, after two years work, I’ve
finalised Proyecto Mírame, Lima, a
series of 50 family portraits aiming to
reflect the cultural, ethnical, religious
diversities present within the peruvian
capital. It has won the 2013 SEE ME
Awards for Photography, and the 2013
PDN Awards. Two of the images have
been selected for exhibition at the
Once settled in Europe, I started to
National Portrait Gallery of London as
work as a photographer. Always
following my curiosity, I explored many part of the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize
2012 and 2013.
sides of this profession: fashion and
portraiture, commissioned by glossy
Besides that I’m always interested in
magazines (Elle, Vogue, Tatler, ID, etc)
new challenges and that’s the reason
and photojournalism, publishing in
why I have been taking photographs
different newspapers (The Times, El
of architecture and then doing collages
Pais, L’Événement du jeudi, La Tercera,
with most of the pictures.
etc), covering subjects such as the
Kosovo War winner at The Guardian
Photography Prize, among others.
While studying architecture in my
hometown, Lima, I got a job as a
journalist in a local newspaper. Many
of the articles had to be documented
with photographs, this made me take
a camera and start to do my first
pictures.

www.jaimetravezan.com

© Jaime Travezan