Javier Falcón — Photographer in Lima, Peru

Javier Falcón is a Peruvian photographer and audiovisual director. He lives and works in Lima, where he has developed editorial photography, brand campaigns, and video direction for more than twenty years.

His work has been published in Vogue Latinoamérica, Elle US, GQ Latinoamérica, L'Officiel Paris, Madame Figaro España, Condé Nast Traveller, and The Guardian, among other publications. He has photographed or directed video for Nike, Puma, Converse, Nikon, Maiyet, Falabella, Ripley, Oechsle, Belcorp, Larcomar, Marathon, Bioderma, Belmond, Kulm Hotel, and Dräger.

For Assouline he contributed to Peru: An Odyssey Across a Time-Honored Land, the Legendary Destinations volume produced with Belmond to mark the company's twenty-five years in the country. He also photographed Hecho en Perú, the 2017 book published by the Faculty of Art and Design at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, documenting its exhibition of Peruvian fashion and textile design. His work appears in Proud South, the survey of photography, fashion, and art from the global south curated by Lidewij Edelkoort and published by Lecturis in 2022.

He began his career as a photography assistant, working with Mario Testino, Ruven Afanador, and Richard Ramos, among other photographers and directors. With Testino he assisted on the September issues of American Vogue shot in Peru — El Dorado with Stella Tennant in Lima (2012) and the Peruvian Paso horses series with Karlie Kloss in Mamacona (2014) — on the books Fina Estampa (MATE, 2018) and Pasito a paso (MATE, 2019), and on part of the Peru work for the series A Beautiful World.

He studied Audiovisual Communication at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.