Horacio Coppola is without doubt the master of photography in twentieth century Argentina and the artist who captured, forever, Buenos Aires in the 1930s.
These photographs, taken by a number of photographers, document the period from the Cordobazo (1969) to the trial of the juntas (1985), which was defined by one of the bloodiest and most repressive dictatorships in Argentina’s history.
Adriana Lestido spent three years documenting the lives of four mothers and their daughters, entering the intimate, sacred space of their relationships. The work uses the tools of photojournalism, but is ultimately closer to art and poetry.
Facundo Zuviria is probably the best-known architectural photographer in Argentina. The work presented here is more personal. It is an artistic look at the city of Buenos Aires.
An interview with Eduardo Gil, renowned photographer, teacher, and curator, presenting his black and white documentary works, as well as new color photographs. He talks about his career and the future of photography.
More than four hundred babies were “disappeared†during the military regime which took power in 1976. Most were kidnapped along with their parents or were born in one of the dictatorship’s clandestine detention centers.
Jorge Saenz shows a rarely seen face of Buenos Aires with his images of the Southern Waterfront Ecological Reserve, in which has been dumped the rubble from the demolition of entire blocks of the historic district.
In the 1980s, after years of confinement and fear, the nights turned long, noisy, and excessive. The party arrived with the extremes of a long pent-up release.
Pepe Mateos works for Clarin, the largest-circulation newspaper in Argentina. In recent years he has photographed Buenos Aires and its political and social events with a critical eye and great sense of humor.
The inhabitants of a neighborhood in Buenos Aires claim that the presence of an electrical substation has caused the deaths of more than a hundred residents and serious illness for as many more.
The series of images, presented here in Nuestra Mirada, by member of the photography cooperative Sub is an exploration of the spiritual and physical margins of greater Buenos Aires, areas that suffer from ills common to all big cities in Latin America.
Photographer Verónica Bellomo spent several months photographing her father, who owns a hog farm. Meat is a central part of the culture of Argentina.
Gaby Messina photographed older, middle-class women revealing something profound about the society to which they belong: dreams, obsessions, fear, and loneliness.
We present two pieces on San Telmo and La Boca, Buenos Aires’ oldest neighborhoods. The stories were made for the Latin American edition of National Geographic magazine by Adrian Perez and Maria Mansilla.
Thomas Lynch, a young photojournalist, uses chiaroscuro to present an artistic essay on the anonymity and loneliness of downtown Buenos Aires.
This photo essay on a pair of tango dancers is part of a delightful book that was just released in Ecuador, Simple Stories: From Ecuador to Tierra del Fuego.