Born in Buenos Aires to a family of Jewish immigrants, in his youth he studied photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology (New York) between 1979 and 1982.
During the eighties and nineties, he became famous for his pictures of main Argentine rock stars such as Charly García, Gustavo Cerati and Fito Páez.
Due to his festive lifestyle and extravagant personality, he was known as the "Argentine Andy Warhol".
After coming close to death many times, a new generation of anti AIDS drugs stabilized his health and he survived for almost 20 years.
[1] That same year, Kuropatwa exhibited his lifetime of work at the Buenos Aires National Museum of Fine Arts.