Fernando Brito was born in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, and studied marketing at the Universidad de Occidente Culiacán. Since 2004, he has been photography editor of the newspaper El Debate de Culiacán. Among his honors are acknowledgments at the 12th Biennial of Visual Arts Northwest in 2009, and the Biennial of the Image Center in 2010. Brito was selected for the Mexican Expo Foto Periodismo in 2010 and 2011.