Federico Estol is a Uruguayan photographer and visual artivist. He is currently developing long-term projects that explore the relationship between cultural identity, inequality and social justice. He is also artistic director of the international festival San José Foto, professor of photography at the Arts University UNLP La Plata and editor of photobooks at El Ministerio Ediciones publishing house. His works are represented by East Wing Gallery (Qatar) and since 2025 is a Catchlight Global Fellow (USA).

Estol has a degree in photography from the UPC-Barcelona Tech University and a diploma in popular education from the Multiversidad Franciscana de América Latina. His work has won awards such as the Grand Prix in Kyotographie (Japan), the Emergentes Award at the Encontros da Imagem Festival (Portugal), the Marco Pesaresi Contemporary Photography Award (Italy), the Best International Photobook Award FELIFA (Argentina), the Critical Mass - Photolucida Award from the Oregon Center of Photography (USA), the Jury Award at the International Photobook Festival (USA), the Jury Award at the International Photography Festival (USA), the Jury Award at the International Photography Festival (USA), and the Jury Award at the International Photography Festival (USA). (USA), the Jury Award at the Lenzburg Festival (Switzerland), the Best Latin American Photobook Award from the Montevideo Photography Center (Uruguay) and the Expert Award from the Lishui Museum of Photography (China).

He has also been a finalist for the Paris Photo-Aperture Photobook Award (France), Global Peace Photo Award (Germany) and the Kaunas Photo Star prize (Lithuania).

His photographs have been exhibited in galleries, cultural centers and festivals around the world, including Les Rencontres d'Arles (France), Kunsthal Art Museum (The Netherlands), Format Festival (UK), Village of Photography (South Korea), Benaki Museum (Greece), Blue Sky Gallery and FotoForum Santa Fe (USA), Horikawa Oike Gallery (Japan), Horikawa Oike Gallery (Japan), Horikawa Oike Gallery (Japan), Kunsthal Art Museum (The Netherlands), Blue Sky Gallery and FotoForum Santa Fe (USA). UU), Horikawa Oike Gallery (Japan), Photovisa (Russia), Photographic Center Nykyaika (Finland), Angkor Photo Festival (Cambodia), Getxophoto and SCAN Festival (Spain), Casa Nacional del Bicentenario (Argentina), Head On Photofestival (Australia), Cortona on the Move and MACRO Museum (Italy), Museo de la Ciudad (Mexico), Fotofestiwal Lodz (Poland), Landskrona FotoFestival (Sweden), Ras Al Khaimah Art (UAE), Lagos Photo (Nigeria), Chennai Photo Biennale (India), Addis Foto Fest (Ethiopia), Centro de Fotografia de Montevideo (Uruguay), the Photobook Museum (Germany) and GNration (Portugal).

His work has also been published in media such as The Guardian, Internazionale, Die Zeit, Lento Magazine, China Newsweek Magazine, El País and Financial Times.

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His works are in various private and public collections such as the IHEAL Latin American Institute of the Sorbonne University in France, Fototeca Latinoamericana FOLA in Argentina, the Lishui Museum of Photography in China, the Fondazione Orestiadi in Italy, the Museum of Avant-garde in Switzerland and the National Museum of Photography in Norway.