Pablo
Cabado

Pablo Cabado

biographY

Pablo Cabado was born in Buenos Aires, he lives and works in Argentina. At the age of seventeen, he moved with his family to Mexico City. There he studied photography at the Escuela Activa de Fotografia (Active School of Photography) and the Consejo Mexicano de Fotographia (Mexican Council of Photography), where he attended the Taller de los Lunes coordinated by Pedro Meyer.

Although he spent several months in France in 1992 as part of the Agence Vu, for most of the time between 1990 and 1997 he was working on his project about Cuba, travelling there frequently for extended stays in Havana. This project resulted in the publication of his first book, Illustratives, Cuba the 90s, published by Ed. La Marca in 1998.

His work has been shown in one-person and group exhibitions in the U.S., France, Italy, Spain, Cuba, Mexico, and Argentina, among other countries.  In 1989 he received the Young Photographer of the Year award from the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York City.  In addition to his Guggenheim Fellowship, his other honors include ICP’s Infinity Award; the Mother Jones Documentary Photography Award; the Gran Premio de Honor del Salon Nacional de Artes Visuales (Argentina, 2000); and grants from Argentina’s Fundación Antorchas (1994) and Fondo Nacional de las Artes (1999).

Series

A Rare Stone, 2020

Series | Aurelio Hernández, a ranch laborer, rides through the dusty emptiness of the Patagonian plateau in search of a lost sheep, he runs into a huge object sticking out of the naked land.

Distant Horizon, 2020

Series | A series of photographs taken in the vast territory of Argentina during almost 15 years, bearing witness to the reality of a country trapped in its own history.

Psyche Project, 2017

Series | Series about the figure of the German neurobiologist Christofried Jakob, who emigrated to Argentina at the beginning of the 20th century.

Argentinean Fun Fair, 2008

Series | Portrait of an abandoned theme park in Argentina.

Cuba, 1990

Series | From Vedado to Centro Habana and from there to Habana Vieja, Argentinian photographer Pablo Cabado has used his camera to capture the people, the buildings, the incredibly contradictory life of Cuba.

A Rare Stone, 2020

Series | Aurelio Hernández, a ranch laborer, rides through the dusty emptiness of the Patagonian plateau in search of a lost sheep, he runs into a huge object sticking out of the naked land.

Distant Horizon, 2020

Series | A series of photographs taken in the vast territory of Argentina during almost 15 years, bearing witness to the reality of a country trapped in its own history.

Psyche Project, 2017

Series | Series about the figure of the German neurobiologist Christofried Jakob, who emigrated to Argentina at the beginning of the 20th century.

Argentinean Fun Fair, 2008

Series | Portrait of an abandoned theme park in Argentina.

Cuba, 1990

Series | From Vedado to Centro Habana and from there to Habana Vieja, Argentinian photographer Pablo Cabado has used his camera to capture the people, the buildings, the incredibly contradictory life of Cuba.

A Rare Stone, 2020

Series | Aurelio Hernández, a ranch laborer, rides through the dusty emptiness of the Patagonian plateau in search of a lost sheep, he runs into a huge object sticking out of the naked land.

Distant Horizon, 2020

Series | A series of photographs taken in the vast territory of Argentina during almost 15 years, bearing witness to the reality of a country trapped in its own history.

Psyche Project, 2017

Series | Series about the figure of the German neurobiologist Christofried Jakob, who emigrated to Argentina at the beginning of the 20th century.

Argentinean Fun Fair, 2008

Series | Portrait of an abandoned theme park in Argentina.

Cuba, 1990

Series | From Vedado to Centro Habana and from there to Habana Vieja, Argentinian photographer Pablo Cabado has used his camera to capture the people, the buildings, the incredibly contradictory life of Cuba.

Interviews

Pablo Cabado
FotoForum
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2017

Interview of Pablo Cabado about his entire photographic work from his archives.

books

37˚57’35”S 57˚34’47”W

Everbest Printing - 2008

Illustratives, Cuba the 90's

La Marca - 1999

37˚57’35”S 57˚34’47”W

Everbest Printing - 2008

Illustratives, Cuba the 90's

La Marca - 1999

37˚57’35”S 57˚34’47”W

Everbest Printing - 2008

Illustratives, Cuba the 90's

La Marca - 1999

awards

John Simon Guggenheim Grants (USA)

2002

Mother Jones Documentary Photography Award (USA)

1990