About

Bolivian-born and U.S.-based, Nicolás Taborga is a cinematographer who has filmed everything from vintage Super 16mm and 35mm to the latest digital cameras — always chasing light, emotion, and the perfect frame across Latin and North America.

A storyteller at heart, he refined his craft at the prestigious Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, where he later taught cinematography. His work spans feature films, documentaries, music videos, and commercials, blending creative vision with technical precision.

His debut feature as DP, El Nombre de las Flores, earned international recognition — including Best Cinematography at FECIR (Chile) and the Special Jury Prize at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Estonia) — "praised for its poetic use of color, light, and atmosphere." He also earned Best Cinematography at the 48 Hour Film Project, as well as the Kodak Film Competition for his S-16mm short UNO.

''The Names of Flowers is a work that reinvigorates the artistic sense of cinema. The film has a distinctive style and elegant lens language. It complements Bolivia’s unique plateau landforms and climate and each frame becomes a beautiful photographic event…”
Beijing International Film Festival
“With eye-popping cinematography, this film is like a series of paintings come to life, from still lifes in Julia’s kitchen to grand Andean landscapes. It is a rumination on truth’s fluidity and the realities of life on the arid plateau, and the film’s gorgeous imagery, like Julia’s story, endures.”
Mill Valley Film Festival
“ The jury unanimously selected the film for its emotional narrative arc linking isolated communities to the outside world as well as its beautiful cinematography”
Sharjah Film Festival
The jury members praised the film's “remarkable color design and framing”

Brussels Independent Film Festival
"... a serious piece of visual poetry.“
Chicago Tribune
“For the originality, boldness, and freedom of the screenwriting, visual language, and cinematography.”
Quebec Cinema