2012 Sony World Photography Awards - 2nd Place, Current Affairs, Professional Competition
Fernando Brito (1975) lives and works in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, in northwest Mexico. Over the past 15 years, he has dedicated himself to documenting, exposing, and denouncing different types of systemic violence and structural insecurity in Mexico. He strives to portray these problematics in their everydayness in order to highlight the distance between how things are and how they should be. He has received recognition for his work nationally and internationally. His accomplishments include second place in Current Issues of the Sony World Photography Awards (2012), third place in the General News category of the World Press Photo Competition (2011), the acquisition prize in the XIV Centro de la Imagen Photography Biennial (2010), and first place in the 12th Northeast Visual Arts Biennial (2009), among others. From 2018 to 2020, he was a fellow of the SNCA Endowment for the Arts, granted by Mexico's Art and Culture Commission. His work has been exhibited in el Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid), The Bronx Documentary Center (New York), Russian Tea Gallery (Paris), and el Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (Trento), among others. His photos belong to the collections of LACMA, Lehigh University Art Museum, el Centro de la Imagen, el Museo de Arte de Sinaloa, el Bienal de Artes Visuales de Yucatán, and other private collections.