Maya Goded
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Maya Goded was born in Mexico City in December, 1967. She studied at the Escuela Activa de Fotografía in Coyoacán, in the Consejo Mexicano de Fotografía and at the International Center of Photography in New York and
has been greatly influenced by her mentor, Graciela Iturbide. She has exhibited her works in Europe and Latin America in collective and individual shows.In 1989 she was recognized in the exhibition Women Seen by Women, organized by the French Alliance and European Commission. She received the Mother Jones Prize in 1993, and first prize in the exhibition Mexico in the Crossroads, organized by the Department of Culture and the Popular University of Munich, Germany. Her first book, Tierra Negra, was published in 1994 and documents an isolated Mulatto population in Costa Chica, Guerrero, and Oaxaca, Mexico. In 2001, she received the prestigious W. Eugene Smith Fund Award for her photographs of prostitutes in La Merced, a downtown neighborhood of Mexico City.
She lives in Mexico City with her husband and two young children. The Wittliff Gallery is proud to include seven of her images so far.
SOURCE Tierra Negra by Maya Goded (Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1994)
San Nicolás, Guerrero, México
1992
Silver gelatin print
Maya Goded
