Fernando Young grew up in Rio de Janeiro and at sixteen years old started to work as photo assistant to Luís Garrido, at Casa da Foto. After a couple of years, he moved to Spain to study photography at the Escuela de Fotografia de Andaluzia, with the brilliant portuguese teacher, Tiago da Cruz. Getting back to Brasil, Fernando worked as an assistant camera for cinema and still photography productions until 2009, when he started shooting commercials and features as a cinematographer. In 2013 he won a Latin Grammy for the Caetano Veloso album cover, Abraçaço, in partnership with the art director Tonho Quinta-feira. In the last couple of years Fernando has focused his work in commercial shootings and features, working as a cinematographer for 3 seasons in the TV show Sob Pressão (Globo), as well as the feature film Chacrinha “O Velho Guerreiro” and some others, both directed by Andrucha Waddington. Nonetheless, Fernando finds great joy in portraiture and documental work, always managing to connect to what made him first fall in love with photography.