Antonio Turok

ANTONIO TUROK

Antonio Turok was born in Mexico City in 1955. He has 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 and was the first to photograph Subcomandante Marcos. A few years ago, Turok and his wife and daughter moved to Oaxaca, Mexico where he continues to photograph – most recently the violent unrest in Oaxaca City. The Wittliff Gallery is proud to own ninety-two of his images to date.

SOUCE Chiapas: El Fin del Silencio by Antonio Turok (Aperture, 1998) and Mexico 1920 - 1992 (Exhibitions Intl, 1992)
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