Charles Biasiny-Rivera born in New York, is the co-founder of En Foco, Inc. He began his career as a photographer during the Korean war where he served with the military. He later became an apprentice to photographer Sir Cecil Beaton and went on to work in magazine and fashion photography during the sixties and seventies. His early creative work was humanistic in nature, largely inspired by Robert Frank, Roy De Carava and W. Eugene Smith. Biasiny holds a B.A. in Photography & Latin American Literature & Culture from Empire State College / SUNY.

He believes that his experience as a photographer documenting street theatre around the world through a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, profoundly influenced his life and work. While traveling throughout India, Bali and South America, he became aware of the powerful messages emanating from the cultures of those countries. He continues to be intensely and personally drawn to the island culture of Puerto Rico, birthplace of his parents, which has greatly influenced his most recent series.

Biasiny-Rivera was born in New York City and is a graduate of the State University of New York / Empire State College, earning a B.A. in Photography and Latin American Literature and Culture (1989). He received two New York Foundation for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships in Photography (1992 and again in 2000) and an Artist in Residence award from Light Work, Syracuse, New York (1992).

He has been awarded the Bellagio Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation, for an artist residency in Italy (1993); the recipient of two Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation critic residency awards through the Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland (1991) and the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware (1993). He co-curated the American Voices exhibition which opened at Fotofest (Houston, Texas, 1996) and traveled to the Smithsonian Institution (Washington D.C., 1997).