Jorge Uzon was born in Chile, 1969. He studied photography at the Escuela de Altos Estudios de la Comunicacion in Santiago, and worked as a photographer at the Revista Hoy until 1994, when he left to work as a freelancer in Mexico, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

In 1996, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) hired him as its photographic correspondent for Guatemala, a post he held for five years, covering the end of the armed conflict and the peace process there, and many another news events in Central America, Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico.

In 2001, he was transferred to the AFP office in Mexico City, but left this job in 2004 to live in Toronto, Canada and pursue independent documentary photography.

To date, he has worked on two major projects: one in Bolivia (2006 - 2008), on the social changes taking place since Evo Morales became president; and one in Patagonia (2008 - 2011), on the struggle over a plan to build five dams on two rivers in that remote part of the planet, for which he has twice received grants from the Ontario Arts Council from Canada and one from the Fondo Nacional para el Desarrollo Cultural y las Artes from Chile.

Major Exhibitions

"La Guatemala" - Visa Pour L'image, Perpignan, France 1998.
"Guatemala, Images of a Troubled Peace", Tinto Coffee House, Toronto, Canada, 2006.
"Mexico City-Toronto", Collaborative Urban Research Laboratory, Toronto, Canada, 2010.

Books

"Hello Baby Board Books", four books published by Groundwood Books, Toronto, Canada, 2010