Juan Camilo Paulhiac is a photographer and documentary maker based in Rome, working between Europe and Latin America. His long-form projects — Transient Waters, The Ayulaa, O Vos Omnes, Lesideth's Journey, Mercedes' Story, Ordalia — explore environmental change, displacement, ritual, and the everyday lives of communities navigating transformation, with sustained attention to Indigenous and Afro-descendant Colombia.

His editorial work has been published in Somos la Revista (Colombia) and the Bulletin d'Information du Ministère de l'Agriculture (France), and he has covered events for the Mayoralty of San José de Cúcuta. As founder of Cuento Aparte, an applied visual anthropology practice, he has produced research-based visual stories for the Caring for Colombia Foundation (USA), Banco de la República (Colombia), and the EASA applied anthropology networks (Italy).

He holds a PhD in Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of the Arts from Université Paris 8 and trained in multimedia storytelling at MediaStorm, New York. He works in Spanish, French, English, and Italian.

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