Julio grew up in Uruguay and later settled in the UK where he studied Documentary Photography at Newport Art College. He has since travelled widely working at the cutting edge of contemporary photojournalism.

He has produced multimedia work for NGOs, universities and international bodies like Save The Children, OXFAM, CAFOD, War on Want, VSO, UNICEF, the British Council, the European Union, University of the Arts (London) and the National University of Singapore, and was awarded a World Press Photo First Prize in the Environment category.

The Forbidden Rainbow is a long term project on the legacy of 500 years of colonialism in the Americas. It documents societies from the old and new worlds of Latin America focusing on the tensions created by the continent’s economic and social imbalance. It highlights the plight of the homeless youth, the tremendous growth of the informal economy and surveys the political cycles and the patterns of migration from native ancestral lands to the edge of the cities.