Risograph Postcard Set: Uruguay

I was trained in graphic design. Collage, for me, is like an analogue version of Photoshop or Illustrator: I work in layers to build up an image. And unless you paste something you are not leaving marks while trying different positions for an object.

Paper is my main medium. I’ve learnt to create images from paper cuts. Even if I have no idea what to do, I sit at my desk and start cutting papers without any plans. After a while, there's a bunch of papers on the table and things start flowing.

My work comes from observation. Real life, the internet, music, movies, all merged together into one thing. It's a big blurry gray area in which different disciplines mix, and the analog and digital world find each other. Many times I’ve tried to define it but that only stops me; I’ll just rather make the work and let it find its space.

The workspace is really important for my image creation, I can't work in a tidy space. Having a messy desk full of cuts is the best way to get ideas flowing and great for discovering new color palettes. Many of the things that trigger ideas in my work are things I’ve found on the table or going through an old folder, generally stuff that was not done intentionally.

I love creating images, I have no idea where I’m heading.

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Diego Prestes a.k.a “El niño” is a graphic designer
and illustrator who writes about himself in third person.

He studied Graphic Design at ORT University of Montevideo and illustration
at the School of Visual Arts of New York (SVA summer residency, 2012).

He worked in small graphic design studios and big advertising agencies for some years.
Not very happy with the structures and the way advertising business worked,
he co-founded in 2010 the Atolón de Mororoa graphic design studio with four friends/partners,
looking for experimentation, lack of rules and a place to play. He is very happy now :)

During 2019 and 2020 he worked on Natasha Jen´s team at Pentagram New York for clients like Google, Waze, Rise for Animals, Center For Contemporary Sciences, Eat Offbeat among others.

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Uruguaya, nacida en Buenos Aires (1988). Fotógrafa, Lic. en Comunicación Audiovisual (2010, ORT) basada en Montevideo/Punta del Este desde 1991. Completó diversos cursos y talleres en ECU, Fotoclub y CdF en Montevideo en sus años universitarios, y también asistió a los programas intensivos en Nueva York: Photography & Digital Video Summer Program (2011) en Parsons, Lens and Screen Arts Summer Residency (2012) en SVA y al Certificado Anual Creative Practices Program (2020) en ICP, donde obtuvo la beca Arnold Newman Scholarship.

Su trasfondo en fotografía comercial tiene una gran influencia en su lenguaje visual, que investiga la representación de la identidad individual como ficción. Se interesa en el archivo familiar, en la experiencia femenina en particular, y su correlato en sistemas más grandes como la familia, la medicina o la sociedad digital. Después de un pasaje por la fotografía de moda, actualmente desarrolla su práctica artística y académica, y es fotógrafa freelance.

Fue seleccionada para Caminos Conjuntos MUFF Festival de Fotografía de Montevideo del Centro de Fotografía (2020-2022). Exhibió en Montevideo, Punta del Este y Nueva York, incluyendo Global Images for Global Crisis de ICP, Nueva York (2020), Re-construyendo Identidad en CCE, Montevideo (2020), Divino Tesoro en Tribu (2021), She / Her en Casa Arbus (2022) y Herencia en Diálogo en Galería SOA (2021) y Centro Cultural Kavlin (2021). En 2025 expuso los retratos del proyecto Arcanas en MACA.

Fue asistente académica para International Center of Photography (NYC), activadora en Jornadas:13 Políticas de la imagen CdF, en Laboratorio de Reflexión del CdF, y profesora de Comunicación y Producción de Moda en UM.

Dirige el proyecto de arte, diseño & tecnología MAGMA FUTURA, es residente en Estudio Las Estrellas, y es miembro de Women Photograph, del colectivo Herencia en Diálogo y del proyecto editorial, audiovisual & podcast Arcanas, sobre magia y feminismos.

Vive y trabaja entre Montevideo y Manantiales, Uruguay.

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I fuse analog and digital tools to create organic pieces. I collaborate as a designer and illustrator interpreting musical and literary projects, creating prints for textile collections and designing graphics for cultural events. Since 2023, I've been in charge of the art for the literary magazine ORO, a paper publication distributed in Uruguay and Argentina.

Among my main inspirations are anime and manga, particularly the work of Junji Ito. I am also enthusiastic about Latin American and Japanese literature, mythology, tarot, botanical illustrations and expressions of medieval art.


I have a degree in graphic design and I'm a partner of Mundial, a design and illustration studio specialized in branding and packaging systems based in Montevideo.

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