Celso Bayo Onofre is a film and digital photographer who has traveled and worked internationally and domestically. His photo projects have taken him to many countries as diverse as Cambodia, Indonesia, Turkey, Ethiopia, Norway, Peru and Brazil. Born and raised in Brazil, Celso has led many different ecotourism and photojournalism projects in Latin America. His extended studies in Digital Photography make him one of the pioneers and most influential professionals in digital photography in Brazil. After being a resident for the last 22 years, Celso became an American citizen and currently lives in California.

In February of 2007, a photo project called Mulheres Africanas (African Women), was chosen to be shown at the prestigious Espaço Cultural Banco Central in São Paulo, Brazil. Since then the photos from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia, were chosen by the Brazilian government to be shown at 2 different cultural capitals of Brazil: São João del Rei (2007) and Caxias do Sul (2008). After more then 2 years, the exhibition has been seen by thousands of people and many different schools at other different cities in Brazil.

In the last 2 years Celso Bayo was presented with the 2nd and 3rd Annual Photography Masters Cup Nominee Award in the category of People at a prestigious live online Winners and Nomination Ceremony presented by International Color Awards to recognize excellence in color photography.

Thousands of images were received from ninety-two countries. The nominated photographers were selected by a who's who Judging Panel from the international photography community, including Christie's (New York), National Geographic (Washington) and Fox Broadcasting Company (Los Angeles).

The Panel reviewed the images online over an eight week period and Celso Bayo's “Maria Bonita” (2007) and "Faces&Shadows" (2008), an exceptional image entered in the People category, received a high percentage of votes overall.

His photo “Hanging loose in Jeri” won a prestigious second place in a Canon/Forum's Magazine, Best annual 2000 Black and White Photography. One of his photos of Bay to Breakers “Elvis at the Balcony” was chosen in 2004 for a pioneer digital project called Project America 24/7.