ABOUT JHEISON HUERTA

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Jheison Huerta was born in the heart of the Peruvian Andes: Huaraz.

In 2005 he finished his university studies in Administration and Commercial Management in Italy. For 05 years he worked as commercial manager of the prestigious MM Architecture and Communication Studio in Italy.

In 2010 she returns to her homeland, Huaraz (Peru), where she opens her own communication studio called New Concept and collaborates with companies in communication consultancies. At the same time he began his preparation and training in landscape photography.
Along the way he discovers in the field of wide field astrophotography his area of interest and on which he will focus his next photographic projects.

In 2014 he created the group Astrofoto Andes, holding the first group workshops and starting an important diffusion at a national level.

In 2015 he was a finalist in the photographic contest organized by the Centro de la Imagen, Canon and the newspaper El Comercio.

The year 2016 during the stellar season begins to include foreign guests as part of the dissemination of the photographic theme. That year he shares workshops with photographer Ivan Castro (Sony Global Ambassador) and Colombian astrophotographer Camilo Jaramillo (Olympus Ambassador).

In 2017 he held his first international photographic workshop in Bolivia and consolidated the photographic workshops in the Cordillera Blanca receiving more than 100 participants in a single season.

The year 2018 he stars in one of the chapters in the series "Hacedores" produced by Canal IPE and broadcasted by TV Peru.
The same year he is invited as a lecturer at the prestigious University of Lima and holds a photographic exhibition at the University San Martin de Porres.
That year he congregates outstanding international photographers to the photographic workshops:
Ragui Aguilar (Mexico), Luis Muñoz (Colombia), Sergio Vindas (Costa Rica), Camilo Jaramillo (Colombia), Christian Vinces (Peru),
Esteban Toro Martinez (Sony Latin America Ambassador) and Fabrizio Fortuna (Italy).

In 2019 he will give a photographic workshop in La Paz (Bolivia) and organize a photographic tour of the Salar de Uyuni and the Lagunas del altiplano,
bringing together renowned Latin American photographers.
In May he organizes expeditions to the Cordillera Huayhuash (Peru), famous for being one of the most beautiful trekking circuits in the world.
In July he is invited as a lecturer at the "All Photo" Photographic Congress in Medellin (Colombia) and as a speaker at the "Fotofest" photographic festival in Trujillo (Peru).

He has been nominated by the Spanish website “Capture the Atlas” as one of the 25 best astrophotographers in the world.

In October, he became the first Peruvian to be honored by NASA with the APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) award for the photograph “Night Sky Reflections from the World’s Largest Mirror,”
which many media outlets have named the best photograph of the Milky Way ever taken from Earth.
Thanks to this award, his work was featured by renowned international media outlets such as the BBC, National Geographic, History, the Mirror, and Telemundo, among others.

In December, he traveled to Bogotá, Colombia, where he gave a talk on photography at the Zona Cinco photography school and led a photo editing workshop.

The year 2020 kicks off with the launch of its course on “Introduction to Astrophotography” on the prestigious Domestika platform . In February, he was invited to collaborate with the National Geographic UK production team on the filming of the new season of the series “One Strange Rock.”

The year 2021 is featured in the book *Photopills of the Year*, which includes 36 of the best photographs of 2020, published by Photopills.
He was invited to serve as a brand ambassador for BenQ photography monitors in Latin America.
The prestigious Larco Museum in Lima invited him to exhibit in the permanent gallery dedicated to the Andean Worldview, and his photograph was used as the basis for the iconographic designs of the Inca constellations.

In 2022, he is collaborating withNational Geographicon the series“Welcome to the Earth”(hosted by Will Smith) and streamed on Disney+. He is organizing his photography expeditions to Iceland during the months of February, March, and November 2022.

The year 2023 is invited by the prestigious brand Sony to become part of the Sony Alpha Partner ambassadors for Latin America. It is also the year where he opens more destinations for the Photographic Expeditions: Morocco, Norway and Patagonia (Argentina/Chile).