Jorge Uzon is a Chilean-born videographer, documentary photographer and former foreign correspondent in Mexico and Central America for Agence France-Presse, currently based in Toronto, Canada, with more than 30 years of experience working with images. Focused in social, political and environmental issues, his work in photography and video has been published by the most trusted media in the world and exhibited in the renowned festival dedicated to photojournalism Visa Pour L’image in Perpignan, France.

His most important works to date include the coverage (1996-1998) of the end of the civil war in Guatemala; the social changes in Bolivia after the election of Evo Morales (2007-2008); the way of life of the inhabitants of Chilean Patagonia in the context of a threat of a hydroelectric project (2008-2012), and the social uprising in 2019 in Chile against the remnants in the political and economic system of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

A Personal Landscape in Patagonia The New York Times
Le Guatemala Visa pour l’image

Color photo in Marieval, Saskatchewan, by Geoff Robins