Biography
Baro Brizuela is an independent documentary photographer based in Asunción, Paraguay, with a focus on sociocultural, environmental, and human rights issues.
He is the co-founder of Invernadero – Imagen Fija y en Movimiento, a communication and content production company, and Agencia T, a collective dedicated to documentary photography. He has worked as a photographer for Factstory, a subsidiary of Agence France-Presse (AFP), and continues to collaborate as a freelance photographer with various institutions and NGOs.
Baro holds a law degree from the Catholic University of Asunción and is a member of El Ojo Salvaje, Paraguay’s leading photography association.
In 2020, he was awarded a grant from the National Geographic Society’s COVID-19 Emergency Fund. He was a finalist for the Hippolyte Bayard Photo Essay Award in both 2018 and 2020, granted by El Ojo Salvaje and the French Embassy in Paraguay.
His work has been featured in numerous publications and exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. In 2021, he received Amnesty International's Peter Benenson Award in the category of Journalistic Work in Alternative Media for his project Tetã Japepo, which documented the Ollas Populares (community kitchens) in Paraguay during the COVID-19 pandemic.