Horacio Villalobos

Director of Photography
Diario Popular
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Horacio Pedro Villalobos began his photojournalism career in 1965 in La Plata Buenos Aires for the newspaper El Dia.

Villalobos did his post-graduate studies at the University of Missouri in 1974-75, as the recipient of the first photojournalism scholarship given by the Inter American Press Association (IAPA).

He received several international photojournalism awards, among them from the IAPA in 1973. Beginning in 1972 - and for more than twenty-five years - Villalobos has done photographic work for Time, Newsweek and Business Week magazines, among others; United Press International and The Associated Press. He has covered everything from wars and violent revolutions to World Cup football and the Olympics in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceana.

He began in career at Diario Popular, a Buenos Aires daily with national circulation, in 1976 and has been the newspapers' director of photography since 1982.

He has been a lecturer for the IAPA since 1980 and a teacher of seminars given by the Association of Journalistic Entities of Argentina.