His winner photo was taken looking at the Licancabur Volcano being shaded by a lucky cloud on the Chile-Bolivia border. Hugo Machado is 29 years old and was born in Angra do Heroismo the beautiful World UNESCO Heritage town in the Azores Islands. He has moved to Lisbon when he was 17 years old to study geology in the Lisbon University. There he also started to dedicate himself to photography together with two of his friends.