Photos by Hugo Fernandez.

Born in Miami Florida in 1962, he was raised in Dade County and the Northeast.  Studying photography at Miami Dade Community College, he received an Associates in Communication in 1985.   He traveled in the western United States then returned to Miami and went on to earn a BFA in Fine Art Photography at Florida International University in 1989.  After traveling to Chile, Bolivia and Peru, he entered graduate school at the Yale School of Art, earning an MFA in Fine Art Photography in 1993.

He moved to New York City after graduate school and began working at LaGuardia Community College in 1994.  He teaches courses in photography and art appreciation.

In 2013 he returned to Chile for the first time in over 20 years.  In 2015 he traveled to his families Cuba, returning in 2016. He exhibited the Hemingway House panoramas in New York City and in South Florida, at the Florida International University North Campus Library in February of 2019.

ugof@aol.com