Biography.

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 around the world for the international media 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 four photo-books published and has been designing and running photovoice and participatory image-making courses for refugees and migrant workers for many years.

Julio is a member of the Panos Pictures agency in London.

His latest book Imaging Orwell In Three Continents, Just Press November 2020, is a photographic travelogue exploring Orwell's journey of discovery from his time as an imperial policeman in Burma in the 1920s to his adventures as a fighter against Fascism during the Civil War in Spain in the 30s, and his sojourn in Morocco, which led him to write two seminal books: 'Burmese Days' and 'Homage to Catalonia', as well as his poignant 'Marrakech' essay. Excerpts from his writings and journals accompany the images.

'Like Orwell, he is naturally on the side of the man and woman in the street... As a documentarian, he is fearless. He transcends frontiers, language and class' — Robert McCrum.

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