B. 1969 - Mexico City.

Cazalis was raised in five countries across the Americas. He holds an MFA in Digital Technology from Parsons School of Design and began his photography career in Mexico after a twenty-three-year absence. He worked initially for a local newspaper and as a stringer for AFP and then moved on to long term documentary work.

His first book, Occupy São Paulo (Kehrer, 2012), focused on the occupation of public land by both the rich and poor in the Brazilian megacity. This work would be the catalyst to his Urban Meta project, documenting sustainability issues in seven megacities across the globe. This work would grant him a WPPH Award in 2009, and he would join the MegaCities Foundation in the Netherlands.

He completed an extensive picture documentary film entitled Year Zero, looking at the consciousness of Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. This work was awarded a STOP TB Award by the WHO.

His second book, Sangre de Reyes (Editorial RM, 2016), was a nine year drama following the matador Jose Tomas across Spain, France, and Mexico to discover the myth of death and living, through his own family bullfighting roots in the ritual. This work was exhibited twice in Arles, France.

Additionally, he has exhibited in galleries and photo festivals in Mexico, Canada, the USA, Spain, England, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Russia, Syria, Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Japan. He has received numerous international awards.

In 2017 he embarked on completing his work on the intimacy of rural Cuba's guajiros. In 2020-22 he documented the Azores Islands to produce Does the Sky Mind the Weather?an introspective look at silence.

He currently resides in eastern Switzerland with his wife and daughter, focusing on landscape and teaching yoga in the Kashmir tradition. Cazalis has also trained in Spain as a craniosacral therapist.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

• 2016 Collection of Fundacion Televisa.

• 2011 Grant: Fomento y Co-Inversion CONACUTLA (National Mexican Council for Culture and Arts), Mexico

• 2011 Stop TB Award

• 2011 BD Photo Competition, Pro Best Global Health Image

• 2010 Hon. Mention; Premio Nacional de Periodismo Cultural Fernando Benitez

• 2010 1st Prize Fotolibro Latino America, Editorial RM, Barcelona, Spain

• 2010 Prix Pictet Nomination: Growth

• 2009 POYi First Place, Special Section Magazine Edit with National Geographic

• 2009 Communication Arts Photography Annual

• 2009 World Press Photo Award, First Place Contemporary Issues, Stories

• 2006 + 2008 Nomination for All Roads Film Project National Geographic Society

• 2005 Hon. Mention 6th Mexican Photojournalism Biennial

• 1998 Hon. Mention; 3rd Mexican Photojournalism Biennial