Fernando Souto

Fernando Souto was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1972 and immigrated to Sydney, Australia, in 1974 with his family. After high school, he started an apprenticeship with a Sydney-based photographer specializing in black-and-white printing.

In 1994, he enrolled from Sydney into The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, majoring in photography. He had originally planned to become a portrait photographer and pursued work with location-based portrait photographers throughout the late 1990s.

In 2002, he started a long-term project titled “The End of the Trail,” which is a humanistic story of the contemporary cowboy that spans seven countries. This series is shot on film and printed using traditional black and white gelatin papers.

He was chosen to attend the Review Santa Fe in 2008 and in 2009 received an emerging artist award from Photo District News for his work on “The End of the Trail.” In addition to his awards, he was part of a group show in September of 2008 at the Michael Mazzeo Gallery in New York City titled, “How I Spent My Summer Vacation.”

He is currently living in Brooklyn, N.Y.