Adriana
Adriana Lestido
biography
Adriana Lestido was born in 1955 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated in photography and then, for fifteen years, from 1980 to 1995, she was a photojournalist for Argentinean newspapers.
From the beginning of her career, photography has always been a way to understand human relations.
She received the Hasselblad Award in 1991, the Mother Jones Foundation Award and the Guggenheim Fellowship. Adriana Lestido is considered as a great personality of Argentine culture and has been a tireless advocate for the women’s rights throughout her career.
“Adriana Lestido sees photography as an accompaniment to her life, to her analysis of society, to her condition as a woman in a sexist country.
She organizes projects, at a slow pace, that question in depth the world in which she lives. Whether it is the condition of women in prison or the relationship between mothers and daughters, she sets up devices for questioning daily life that reveal reality and require photography to analyze situations.
She captures the intense moments of inter-individual relations, which she then organizes as narratives that will serve to decipher a situation, to situate the issues at stake, to reveal the implications. In black and white, with a real humility in relation to what she deals with, she is deeply convinced by the necessity of a documentary photography that is anchored in the present. She focuses on developing issues that could not be understood without their social dimension. She questions in a global way the state of the world through particular stories.
As a witness above all, she endeavors to question, in images, the state of a society she is part of, which she neither wants to sublimate nor transform into a show, and she looks at a “non-spectacular” daily life, revealing its flaws and imbalances. She tells, with a rare visual simplicity, the pains, the difficulties, the ruptures of worlds that she accompanies with her calm and attentive rhythm. “
Series
Mexico, 2010
Argentina, Oil Yard, 2009
El Amor, 2005
Villa Gesell, 2005
Difficult loves », Mothers and Daughters (1995-1999)
Argentina - Women in Jail, 1993
Argentina, Teenage Mothers (1988-1989)
Argentina, Children Hospital, (1986-1988)
Antártida, 2012
Mexico, 2010
Argentina, Oil Yard, 2009
El Amor, 2005
Villa Gesell, 2005
Difficult loves », Mothers and Daughters (1995-1999)
Argentina - Women in Jail, 1993
Argentina, Teenage Mothers (1988-1989)
Argentina, Children Hospital, (1986-1988)
Antártida, 2012
Mexico, 2010
Argentina, Oil Yard, 2009
El Amor, 2005
Villa Gesell, 2005
Difficult loves », Mothers and Daughters (1995-1999)
Argentina - Women in Jail, 1993
Argentina, Teenage Mothers (1988-1989)
Argentina, Children Hospital, (1986-1988)
Multimedia
Amores Dificiles, 2013
Amores Dificiles, 2013
Amores Dificiles, 2013
Interviews
Somos memoria “Adriana Lestido”
Canal Encuentro
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Interview by Gabriel Villazon, 2018
Interview of Adriana Lestido (in Spanish).
Adriana Lestido
Mas que mil palabras
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2014
Interview of Adriana Lestido (in Spanish).
Entrevista: Adriana Lestido, las fotos imperdibles de su muestra en el MNBA
Télam
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2013
Interview for her exhibition « Lo que se ve » at the National Art Museum (Argentina).
Lo Que Se Ve
IMAGINADAfilms
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A film directed by David Rubio, 2008
For her exhibition at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish).
books
Antártida Negra. Los diarios
Antártida Negra.
Lo Que Se Ve
Interior
La obra
Madres e Hijas
Mujeres Presas
Antártida Negra. Los diarios
Antártida Negra.
Lo Que Se Ve
Interior
La obra
Madres e Hijas
Mujeres Presas
Antártida Negra. Los diarios
Antártida Negra.
Lo Que Se Ve
Interior
La obra
Madres e Hijas
Mujeres Presas
awards
2010
Medalla del Bicentenario (Bicentennial Medal), Buenos Aires
Personalidad Destacada de la Cultura. (Notable Cultural Figure) Legislatura de B.A.
2009
Honor Prize of the Visual Arts National Fair, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Life Achievement Award, Argentine Art Critics Association, Buenos Aires
2007
Subsidy for creation. Fondo Metropolitano de las Artes. Buenos Aires
2003
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, subsidy for the publication, (USA)
2002
Konex Prize (Argentina)
1998
Leonardo Prize. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Argentina)
1997
Mother Jones Prize (San Francisco, USA)
1995
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant (USA)
1991
Hasselblad Fellowship (Goteborg, Sweden)
1988
La Nacion Newspaper First Prize (Argentina)
1983
Human Rights First Prize, APDH (Argentina)