Biography

Eduardo was born in 1975 into a Lebanese family in Cordoba, Argentina. He studied Economics and worked as an accountant before being inspired by legendary Czech photographer Josef Koudelka's work to do a master's degree in Photojournalism in Barcelona, Spain, in 2007.

Over the following years Eduardo worked on a number of photojournalistic projects including 'En El Camino' about migrants from Central America travelling through Mexico (published as a book by Blume in 2010) and 'Neutral Fire' about Swiss sharpshooting culture. With a keen interest in Middle Eastern affairs he worked on various projects in Israel and Palestine such as 'Masafer. Life in the Interstice' about cave-dwelling communities in the Hills around Hebron and 'What Remains', the result of documenting the aftermath of the Israel-Gaza war in August and September 2014. Also in Gaza Eduardo developed the project 'Gaza, Mode d'Emploi', a tale of common spaces in an uncommon place.

In recent years Eduardo has been concentrating on personal projects whenever possible while working as a photographer for Agence France Presse (AFP) in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Ethiopia, where he covered the Tigray conflict between 2020 and 2022.

His work from Ethiopia was nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize and won numerous other awards including the Grand Prix de la Photo Varenne as well as the Photo of the Year (UNICEF) and the a Picture of the Year (POYi) prize in 2022. It was exhibited at the Visa pour l’Image photo festival in 2021.

His main interest when approaching projects are people. As a way of getting closer to his subjects he considers learning new languages an important part of his work which has resulted in speaking English, Arabic, Hebrew, French, Italian, Catalan and Portuguese to varying degrees of fluency and Spanish completely fluently.

He lives in Nairobi and works around the region and the wider continent.