About the Artist

Antonio Turok was born in Mexico City in 1955. He is an internationally known documentary photographer that has worked in Central America, Mexico, and the United States for the last forty years. His work has been collected by numerous museums in Mexico, Europe, and the United States including the Los Angeles County Museum of Fine Arts, The Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, and the Wittliff Gallery of Mexican and Southwestern Photography San Marcos, Texas.

Turok has been a recipient of awards such as the National Institute of Fine Arts, Maine Photographic Workshop Book Award, 1994 Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography Award, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, USA-Mexico Fund for Culture Rockefeller / Bancomer Award, and the FONCA-National System Award for Artists in Mexico.He has published two books, entitled Imágenes de Nicaragua (Casa de Las Imágenes 1988) and Chiapas: End of Silence (Aperture 1998).

Turok lives and teaches in Oaxaca, Mexico where he continues to document the life around him.