Tony Chirinos is a Venezuelan-born documentary-style artist based in Miami. His career spans over forty years, exploring the theme of mortality and fragility. Chirinos is a recipient of fellowships including the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2023), Callanan Excellence in Teaching Award (2019), the South Florida Cultural Consortium (2010), and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation grant (2021) to financially assist in the printing production of his first monograph, "The Precipice." Mr. Chirinos holds a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University. Trained as a Bio-medical photographer in 1985 at Miami Children’s Hospital, he went on to create the Medical Photography department at Baptist Health Systems in 1989. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. His photographic series have been featured in The British Journal of Photography, The Washington Post, Photo Eye, Edge of Humanity Magazine, Slate, Daily Mail, Business Insider, and Fotofilmic, among others. His work is included in the collections of Museum of Fine Arts Houston, University of Colorado at Boulder, Candela Collection, Cuban Heritage Collection, Light Work, Photographic Center Northwest, Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, and Mount Sinai Medical Center, among others. Mr. Chirinos is a professor of photography at Miami Dade College.