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

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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