| Carlos Villalon |
 © Fabio Cuttica
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| Chile |
Carlos Villalon was born in Chile in 1965. He studied art and social communication at VIPRO University in Santiago, Chile and photography at The New School for Social Research in New York, but claims that his best education has come from traveling to places like Haiti, Afghanistan, Russia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, among others.
Between 2000 and 2003, Villalon concentrated on photographing the communities of southern Colombia where the only economically viable plant is coca. In July 2004, his story ‘Cocaine Country' was featured as a cover story in National Geographic magazine. He is now focused on two long-term projects, one on The Darien Gap, where armed groups fight for control of cocaine and arms trade routes, and the second project on the coca cultural traditions and cocaine blood trails throughout Latin America. His work has been published in Colors, National Geographic Adventure, Newsweek, Men's Vogue, DAS and Outside magazines; he has also worked with The New York Times, The Mail on Sunday, The Boston Globe and The Pulitzer Center. He is represented by Redux pictures and is currently splits his time between New York City and Colombia.
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