Marco Garro
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Marco Garro is a freelance storyteller using photography and multimedia focuses on social and environmental issues in his native country of Peru.
Garro is a frequent contributor to OjoPúblico, an independent investigative journalism platform. He has worked at local newspapers in Peru and he collaborated with Deutsche Presse-Agentur and Agence France-Presse in Peru. In addition, his photographs have been published in The New York Times, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Internazionale, El Pais, among others.
Garro is also a National Geographic Explorer.
He has been awarded photography residencies and won first place in the photography salon held by the Peruvian-North American Cultural Institute in Lima.
Garro has had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Peru, and has been part of several group exhibitions at festivals and museums.
He received a master’s degree from Lima’s Centro de la Imagen.
