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Adriana Lestido Born in Buenos Aires in 1955. Adriana Lestido can only think of photography as a companion of life, going hand in hand with her societal criticisms and her role of being a woman in a "machista" country. At a slow pace, she organizes her projects to pose deep questions to her surroundings. Whether it's the condition of women in prison or the relationship between a mother and a daughter, her interrogations of daily life reveal reality and charge photography as an instrument of analysis. In black and white and a real humility for her subjects, she believes in the necessity of a documentary photography rooted in the present. Driven to develop analyses with a social dimension, she ponders the state of the global world through these issues. With a rare visual simplicity, she states the wounds and difficulties of a universe broken down by her attentive and peaceful pace. Adriana Lestido has taken part in several collective and individual exhibitions. 
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Stories
 | Villa Gesell, Argentina (2005) It’s a sea shore. A place where we can forget ourselves and share our loneliness with elements. The beach becomes, under the Adriana Lestido’s camera, a plastic space, which carries in it many promises. |
 | Love (2005) Love is a diffuse, deep, and terribly personal feeling. Far from being a universal feeling, we find back ourselves alone with our questionings. To share it, we miss words sometimes. Remain pictures to explain what we are feeling. This pictures series is an essay on this feeling, which brings us closer to the other...making us alone. |
 | South Africa (2002) Adriana Lestido is offering us a trip through South-African landscapes. The “rainbow nation” could not exist just in a bright-coloured place. On the South-African roads, along the countryside lands, the lack of human beings can surprise us. This photographic choice makes us feel the stillness before the storm when South Africa will be the first African country to organise the Football World Cup in 2010. |
 | Mothers and Daughters, Argentina (1998) Difficult loves (Mothers and daughters)
By Marta Dillon
In Mother and daugthers photographer Adriana Lestido is searching her own traces in the features she captures, which are drawn for all women: repeated gestures that make only mothers out of us, only daughters, women born of a woman who expels us: love and helplessness.Alter two series on motherhood at risk –Tenn-age mothers adn Women jailed- Lestido is not afraid of looking at this bond without any distraction. For three years she photographed four mothers at their most intimate activities, women who are walking the path of life together, wothout any men in their family. Adriana watches mothers with a daughter´s eye. She cooses the... |
 | Argentina, Los Hornos, women in jail (1993) The prison life is, in collective imaginary, an environment deeply masculin, virile, and even chauvinist. Yet, many women are imprisoned in the world. How do they conciliate their confinement and their woman, mother, and wife’s life?
Adriana Lestido documents this taboo issue and submerges us in a little-known environment. |
Awards
2009 - Honour Prize of the Visual Arts National Fair in Buenos Aires
2009 - Life Achievement Award, Argentine Art Critics Asociation
2007 - Subsidy for creation. Metropolitan Funding for the Arts. Buenos Aires
2003 - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, subsidy for the publication (USA)
2002 - Konex Prize (Argentina)
1998 - Leonardo Prize. National Museum of Fine Arts (Argentina)
1997 - Mother Jones Prize (San Francisco, USA)
1995 - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (USA)
1991 - Hasselblad Fellowship (Gotenburg, Sweden)
1988 - La Nación Newspaper, First prize (Argentina)
1983 - Human Rights First Prize, APDH (Argentina)
Exhibitions
 | Hard Love (Madrid) From 2010-06-10 to 2010-08-29 Adriana Lestido is a key figure in contemporary Argentinean photography. Her work, predominantly in black and white, is inspired by the classical documentary style. On the occasion of the 13th edition of PHotoEspana, International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, a retrospective is dedicated to her, gathering more than 150 photos realized between 1979 and 2007.  More information... |
 | Lo que se ve (Buenos Aires) From 2009-07-31 to 2009-08-30 The exhibition designed by Gabriel Diez Juan Travnik draw the chronological of Adriana Lestido through 162 of his photographs. These series are not only images of reality, but are really constructions of meaning which constitute a photographic narration putting forward a voluntary commitment and defined around themes, subjects and situations that the artist is trying to make us consider. She wants to develop problematics that could only be understood with a social dimension. She wonders about the state of the global world around particular cases. She says with a rare visual simplicity, the... More information... |
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