Alejandro Cegarra was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1989, and still considers the city his home. He studied photography at the Roberto Mata Photography and Journalism Workshop at the University of Alejandro de Humboldt and works for the Associated Press, the Washington Post and Stern. His pictures have been published in the New York Times and Time magazine, among others. In 2014 he was the recipient of the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award, in 2024 he received the World Press Photo Long-Term Project Award for his project The two Walls.
