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Pipe Yanguas is a Colombian-American photographer and visual artist. Born in 1982 and raised in Colombia. He moved with his family to Miami during his teenage years.

He started to develop the concept ‘Photo-biography’ in his art production in 2010, which made him a full-time photographer at his Miami-based company, The Photo Biographer.

Profession
Pipe photographs his subjects engaging in their lives’ most beloved activities, but keeps photographing them in such situations recurrently; at least once per year for the rest of their lives. He builds for them a coffee table book that grows over time, displaying all the pictures he has taken of the subject’s passions over time. This personal book becomes their Photo-biography.

Besides Miami, he has worked in Dubai, Beirut, Milan, Barcelona, London, and New York City, among others. Although his clientele is primarily more private, his camera has shot some Colombian public figures such as Cristina Umana, Marcela Mar  , Fabian Rios , Patricia Castaneda , Maria Fernanda Yepes , also the Venezuelan artist Nina Dotti , and the Australian-Lebanese Jessica Kahawaty.

Education
Pipe graduated in Business Management at the University of Miami, then took a residential design course at The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale and finally pursued a 3-year photography degree at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan, Italy. During the years he lived in Italy, he worked photographing street style fashion in Milan for Vogue Italy and photographed the backstage life of Vivienne Westwood fashion shows.

Books
In 2018, Pipe got his first book published, Haiti Rediscovered. A book he co-authored as the photographer, with Françoise Elizée. The book is a tribute to the Haitian Women and a testament of admiration for them. Pipe documented the work-life-passions of the 12 female subjects in the book.

Exhibitions
Pipe participated, together with other renowned artists, in the Group Exhibition “Small Works” hosted in the Cristina Chacon Gallery in July 2012.