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 close to the Río de la Plata, a presence that brought birds, storm surges, sunsets, floating meadows, myths, and a deep communion with nature into her life. As a child, she dreamt of travelling upriver to discover the faint voices carried by the water. This longing left a lasting mark on her versatile, exploratory spirit.  

From an early age, she stood out for her written storytelling. In her teenage years, she became fascinated by visual language, experimenting with 1970s analogue cameras found in her family’s attic.  

She studied medicine and worked as a clinical pharmacologist until 2021, when she realised it was time to cast off the moorings and dedicate herself entirely to photography and writing. Her passion for research and biology is evident throughout her work.  

Travellers have always been a source of inspiration for her. The images from Shackleton’s 1914 Antarctic expedition, developed in platinum-palladium, captured her imagination so profoundly that she decided to train in this alternative analogue printing technique in Barcelona and Santiago de Chile. Today, her work includes images developed using this process in her Buenos Aires studio.  

She won First Prize in Art at Estilo Pilar 2023 and exhibited platinum-palladium works at Rolf Art Gallery from December 2023 to February 2024. Her photographic work was a finalist in the Women in Science competition organised by the Royal Photographic Society (UK) in 2023 and in the Casa de América Photography Contest (Spain) in 2021. She has shown her work in Pinta BAPhoto 2024, Lorena del Pilar art (currently), Rolf Art (2023-2024), BADA Art Fair (2021) and at Desde la Raíz Gallery (2022).  

Recently, she published Gran Tiempo / Big Time (Díaz Ortiz Ediciones, 2024), a photobook on natural history seen through a deeply personal and poetic lens. As part of this long-term project—combining platinum-palladium images with text—she attended an artist residency in Mérigny, France, where she worked on photobooks under the guidance of Israel Ariño and his team. She has also published a novel, El Espejo Opaco (The Opaque Mirror, Editorial El Ateneo, 2020), and a popular science book on pharmacology, Confesiones de un comprimido (Confessions of a Pill, Del Hospital Ediciones, 2019).  

She has taken part in various artistic courses and workshops throughout her training. Some of her mentors include:  

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. She is currently part of Francisca Kweitel’s creativity programme.  

Her work, rich in sensory experience, explores her own perspective—attentive and filled with wonder—on the beauty of the life that surrounds her. She responds to the vast, the ephemeral, the fragile, the intimate, and the singular, with a vision enriched by literary and scientific texts, offering a celebratory testament to the world.  

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