Deustua, Jorge

Jorge Deustua studied Industrial and Systems Engineering at the National University of Engineering in Lima. Years later, in Paris, he pursued doctoral studies in Cinematography at the École Pratique des Hautes Études and at the Sorbonne. From a very young age, he became interested in photography and has become one of Peru's most renowned photographers. In 2007, he published his anthology "In Search of a Hero," which accompanied the retrospective exhibition of the same name presented in Lima, Sydney, and Canberra. Deustua has also worked on projects for the Preservation of Peru's Visual Memory and recovered important photographic archives. He currently lives and works in Lima and Brisbane.