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About Argentinian photographer Adriana LESTIDO (b. 1955, in Buenos Aires)
The
black-and-white photographs by Adriana LESTIDO document the often
difficult place of women in society.After her studies in photography at
the Institute of Photographic Art and Audiovisual Techniques in
Avellaneda, she worked from 1980 to 1995 as a photojournalist for
newspapers 'La Voz del Interior' and 'Página/12', as well as the agency
DyN. Photography is a tool that allows her to understand the mystery of
human relationships. The basic emotions give meaning to her black and
white photographs of teenage mothers, women prisoners, mother-daughter
relationships, and love through abstract and misty landscapes. Adriana
LESTIDO has received numerous awards and distinctions including a grant
from the Hasselblad Foundation in 1991, the Mother Jones Foundation
Prize in 1997, and the Grand Acquisition Prize at the Salón Nacional de
Artes Visuales in 2009. In 1995, she was the first Argentine
photographer to be awarded a Guggenheim grant. In 2010 she was declared
to be an outstanding cultural figure by the legislature of the city of
Buenos Aires. She is a highly committed teacher and organized
photography workshops in Ezeiza women’s prison in 2007. In
2002, she won the Merit Diploma Konex Award and in 2022 the Platinum
Konex Award.
Photo books by Adriana LESTIDO
- 'Mujeres
presas' (2001, 2008); ,Madres e hijas' (2003); 'lo que se ve.
fotografías 1979-2007' (2008, 2012); ,Interior' (Inside, 2010); 'La
Obra' (The Work, 2011), 'Battered Latin America' (2021); 'Metrópolis'
(2022)
The
works by Adriana LESTIDO are widely exhibited. In Argentina, they are
included in the collections of Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and the
Museo de Arte Moderno, in the United States at the Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, in France at the Bibliothèque nationale and in Sweden at the
Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg. Her exhibitions have been seen in
Argentina, Mexico, The Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Germany, France,
South Africa, Spain, Brazil, New York, Ohio, and California.
Exhibitions (a selection)
- 2008: 'Lo Que Se Ve' (What Can Be Seen), Cronopios Hall, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires);
2010: 'Amores Dificiles. Retrospective', Casa de América, Madrid;
2013: 'Adriana Lestido. Fotografías 1979/2007', Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Argentina;
2014: 'Lo Que Se Ve', The Art Gallery, Consulate General and Promotion Center of the Argentine Republic, New York, USA.