Valeria Beruto was born in Córdoba in 1978 and moved with her family to Buenos Aires at the age of two. Since then, she has always lived very close to the Río de la Plata, which brought birds, southeastern storms, sunsets, swamplands, myths, and a deep communion with nature into her life. As a child, she aspired to travel upstream to discover the faint voices carried by the water. This marked her spirit as a versatile traveler forever.

From her childhood, she stood out with her written narratives, winning school awards and mentions. In adolescence, she became fascinated with visual language while experimenting with analog cameras from the '70s in the family attic.

She studied medicine and worked as a clinical pharmacologist until 2021 when she realized it was time to set sail and dedicate herself full-time to photography and writing. Her passion for research and biology is evident throughout her work.

She won the First Prize in Art at Estilo Pilar 2023 and exhibited platinum-palladium works at Rolf Art Gallery from December 2023 to February 2024. Her work was a finalist in the Women in Science competition of the Royal Photographic Society (England) in 2023 and in the Casa América photography competition (Spain) in 2021. She participated in the BADA 2021 fair and a collective exhibition at the Desde la Raíz Gallery in 2022.

Travelers have always been her source of inspiration. The images from Shackleton's 1914 expedition to Antarctica, revealed in Platinum Palladium, captured her imagination to the extent that she decided to train in this alternative analog developing technique in Barcelona and Santiago de Chile. Currently, her work includes images developed with this technique in her laboratory in Buenos Aires.

She has published a novel: "El Espejo Opaco" (Editorial El Ateneo, 2020), and a popular science book related to pharmacology: "Confesiones de un comprimido" (Del Hospital Ediciones, 2019). She writes for online media and is currently working on a new book, very different from her previous ones. In connection with this book, a long-term project that includes Platinum Palladium images and texts, she participated in a residency in Mérigny, France, to work on photobooks under the guidance of Israel Ariño and his team.

During her artistic training, she participated in various courses and workshops. These are some of her mentors:

In literature/writing: Mori Ponsowy, Pedro Mairal, Elina Musante, Santiago Llach, José María Brindisi, María Marta García Negroni.

In photography: Inés Miguens, Bea Blousson, Isabel Fernández Echavarría, Israel Ariño, Clara Gassull, Dominique Besanson, Vivian Galbán.

Her work, rich in sensoriality, explores her own surprised and attentive perspective on the beauty of the life that surrounds her. She responds to the impulse of the vast, the ephemeral, the fragile, the intimate, the unique with a gaze enriched by literary and scientific texts to convey her celebratory testimony of the world.