Antonio Turok
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Antonio Turok was born in Mexico City in 1955. He photographed extensively throughout Central America and Southern Mexico for the past twenty years and has published two books, Imágenes de Nicaragua (Images of Nicaragua, 1988) and Chiapas: El Fin del Silencio (Aperture, 1998).
Turok is a winner of the 1994 Mother Jones International Documentary Photography award and the recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and U.S./Mexico Fund for Culture for his work in Chiapas. He was the only photographer to take images of the Zapatista National Liberation Army as they occupied the colonial city of San Cristobal de las Casas in 1994. He also was the first to photograph Subcomandante Marcos.
Turok and his wife and daughter recently moved to Oaxaca, Mexico where they organize art workshops and run a digital photogallery. The Wittliff Gallery is proud to own twenty-two of his images so far.
SOURCES Chiapas: El Fin del Silencio by Antonio Turok (Aperture, 1998) and Mexico 1920 - 1992 (Exhibitions International, 1992)
Año Nuevo en San Cristobal de las Casas / New Year in San Cristobal de las Casas
1994
Silver gelatin print
Antonio Turok
