Artist of the day

Friday, January 30, 2026

Artist of the Day, January 30, 2026 : Antonio Turok, a Mexican photographer (#2473) [documentary]

For three decades, photographer Antonio Turok has traveled through his native Mexico and Central America, capturing images that speak of the human condition in places like Nicaragua and the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.

Antonio Turok (1955) was born in Mexico City. At the age of seventeen he arrived in Chiapas, where he lived twenty-five years and began his photographic career. He was a correspondent in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala in the 1980’s. He was the first photographer to account for the Zapatista uprising, and later, in Oaxaca, he photographed the movement of the APPO. He was in New York on September 11, 2001 and has taken pictures of Mexicans in the United States and the Midwestern industrial crisis.

He recently documented the protest demonstrations in the presidential takeover of Donald Trump. He has collaborated in different publications such as Aperture, Camera Work, Crónica, La Jornada, Double Take, Paris Match, Le monde, Stern, The Independent and Proceso. His work is included in several collective books, as well as in collections from various museums and private collections. He has published the books Images of Nicaragua (1988) and Chiapas: The End of Silence / The End of Silence (Era/Aperture 1998). He obtained the Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography Award in 1994, and has received scholarships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Mexico/U.S. Culture Trust. In 2018 he obtained the Medal of Photographic Merit awarded by the Photo Library of the National Institute of Anthropology and History. He is considered one of the most important documentary photographers of our time.

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Antonio Turok

Doña Rosa the Weaver, Chiapas, 1978

Fiesta of Santa Marta, Chiapas, 1979

Water Carriers, Zona Tojobal, Chiapas, 1980

Glorious Harvest, Chiapas, 1981

Basurero, Guatemala City, 1982

Amanecer de campaña, Nicaragua, 1983

El Muerto Olvidado, San Salvador, 1983

Fallen Soldier II, Nicaragua, 1983

Prisionero de guerra, Nicaragua, 1983

Revista del Ejército Popular, Nicaragua, 1983

The Seed, Marquis de Comillas, Chiapas, Mexico, 1983

Meat Seller, Granada, Nicaragua, 1984

Ofensiva Final, San Salvador, 1989

Stretching the Border, Tijuana, Mexico, 1989

The Women of Magdalenas, Chiapas, 1989

War Psychosis, San Salvador, 1989

Widows of Guatemala, 1989

Solar eclipse, Ocosingo, Chiapas, Mexico, 1991

EZLN, Chiapas, Mexico, 1994

Mujeres Zapatistas, Chiapas, 1994

Sub Comandante Marcos, Chiapas, Mexico, 1994

Subcomandante Marcos, mountains of southeastern Mexico, Chiapas, 1994

9-11 NYC, 2001

Collapse of Twin Towers, New York, USA, 2001

My house is not a brothel, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico, 2006

Young Warriors, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico, 2006

Polvo de Estrellas (Star Dust), 2014

It is the Times Lord (The Mineral Fenix of Wells), 2015

The Wall, Washington D.C., 2017

Welcome, Mr. Trump, Washington, D.C., 2017

Amanecer en Sand Bay, Nicaragua, 2020

Estero, Estuary where the river meets the sea, 2024

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Artist of the Day, January 29, 2026 : Peter Lowe is an English artist (#2472)

Peter Lowe (1938) is an English artist. Since boyhood he has been engaged in a search for fundamental principles in art, which has led him to geometric abstraction. He is best known for his series of relief constructions in perspex and wood, entitled Volume and Void. He has had 11 one-man shows since 1974, and has participated in more than 120 group exhibitions. His work has been seen widely in Europe and is in 18 public collections, including Tate Britain in London.

Lowe was born in Hackney, London. Inspired by J.W.Turner, he painted watercolours of Thames scenes. These gained him entry to Goldsmiths‘ College of Art in south London, where he was taught by Kenneth and Mary Martin among others. He recalls he made the move away from figurative art with a sense of excitement at embarking on a “great adventure”.

His work can be seen as a development of Cubist experiments with collage and rotational movement to create dynamic compositions. He says he realised that one could make such works using simple geometric shapes such as squares (or cubes), triangles and circles, without reference to “pipes and guitars”. His compositions often show linear progressions with a definite beginning and end, giving a sense of completeness.

He has made moveable sculptures, oil paintings, drawings and prints, sometimes using computers, as well as the reliefs for which he is best known. Some of his ideas have been translated into outdoor installations.

Lowe taught at Leeds College of Art from 1962 to 1964, where he worked with the noted teacher Harry Thubron. He also taught at the Barry Summer School in Wales in the 1960s as an assistant to Kenneth Martin. In 1965 Lowe became a lecturer at Goldsmiths and stayed until retiring from teaching in 2000.

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