Galería América

The Institute for Latino Studies presents:

35 Years of Photography
Antonio Turok, Featured Artist
Monday, October 13 - Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Opening Reception: Monday, October 13, 2008
McKenna Hall
Institute for Latino Studies
University of Notre Dame

The Institute for Latino Studies is pleased to announce a gallery opening reception at 5:00pm on Monday, October 13, to celebrate the work of Antonio Turok, Visiting Fellow of the Institute. Mr. Turok will display photographs covering the past thirty-five years of his work. The reception will be held at the Institute for Latino Studies’ Galería América in McKenna Hall at the University of Notre Dame.

Born in Mexico City in 1955, Antonio Turok is an internationally known documentary photographer who has worked in Central America, Mexico, and the United States for the last thirty-five years covering the human condition of the people of Mexico. He has photographed extensively throughout southern Mexico, Central America—and the barrios of the United States. Both of his books—a volume of photos from Nicaragua, and his 1998 collection from Chiapas, El Fin de Silencio (The End of Silence)—have been internationally acclaimed. Turok is a winner of the 1994 Mother Jones International Documentary Photography award and the recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and US/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.

Mr. Turok is currently visiting the Institute, teaching a photography class for the fall semester, but he lives and teaches in Oaxaca, Mexico, where he continues to document the human drama that surrounds him.

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The Galería América is open daily, Monday–Friday, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
This event is free and open to the public.
Parking is available in the Visitors' Lot on Notre Dame Avenue.

For more information about the Institute for Latino Studies visit our web site at latinostudies.nd.edu
or contact
Teresa Santos
Curator
Institute for Latino Studies
University of Notre Dame
574-631-5224
tsantos1@nd.edu

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