Francisco “Cuto” Reed Alzérreca is a Chilean documentary photographer and author based in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal, whose work explores the intersection of identity, performance, and queer culture. Trained at the Instituto Profesional Arcos, his vision is deeply committed to underrepresented communities and aesthetics, creating images that are both intimate, provocative, and profoundly human.

His most emblematic project, Bizarre Valparaíso, features large-format black-and-white portraits documenting the underground queer scene of Valparaíso. These portraits capture drag artists, performers, and creators within a space of cultural resistance, where body and expression become both a political and an aesthetic statement.

Beyond this work, Reed has developed series such as Marcha Diversidad Valparaíso, focused on showcasing queer diversity in the port city, and Pampilla Coquimbo, a documentary record of the iconic popular festival in northern Chile.

His career has been featured in media such as the TV program Barparaíso (Canal 13C), where he spoke about his documentary approach and the importance of preserving a living culture in the face of a society that still carries prejudice.

Inspired by family albums and photographic memories from his childhood, his work moves between the intimate and the collective, merging the vulnerable and the disruptive. Today, from Montreal, he continues to develop projects that cross geographical and cultural borders, with visibility, diversity, and the strength of queer narratives at the core.