Andrés Figueroa was born in Santiago, Chile, in July of 1974. He discovered photography when he was only 15 years old when he joined a B&W photographic laboratory workshop. Since then he has dedicated himself to portraying the world that surrounds him, working obsessively to develop his self-taught skills. Once he finished school, he joined the Chilean Photo Art School, where he studied Professional Photography. Since 1998 he has worked as an editorial, commercial and industrial photographer. Parallel to this, he developed his authorial work, creating diverse personal projects. Since 1998 the focus of his work has been photographic portraits.