Maria de la Paz Gutierrez
Argentina
Biography
María de la Paz Gutiérrez is a photographer born and based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She trained at the Andy Goldstein School of Creative Photography and attended workshops with Juan Travnik, Carlos Bosch, Valeria Bellusci and Gisela Volá.
She has exhibited her work in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Finland. Her work has received several awards, including the Banco Provincia de Buenos Aires Bicentennial Award (2022), the María Elena Walsh Foundation Award (2021), First Prize at the National Salon of Mercedes, Buenos Aires (2023), Second Prize at the National Salon of Junín (2023), and an Honorable Mention at POY Latam (2022), among others.
In 2024, she published her first photobook, Winter Garden / Childhood, with Editorial La Luminosa in Argentina. The book was presented at Foto em Pauta 2024 in Tiradentes, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and has also been presented in Chile and Paraguay.
Project
“Childhood” is a series of photographs the artist created between 2017 and 2022. The photos were taken in Tucumán (Argentina), the province where she lived for 30 years. In them, she portrays her sons and daughters in the natural, rural setting of the Tucumán hills. “I wonder what my children will remember about these—their vacations. When they recall those long hours outside of time, outside their routines, in that in-between space, with its own rules, rituals, and reverie. On the long journey between my childhood and theirs, I weave a bridge in images between my memories and their present, the real and the imaginary, in a setting where the familiar becomes strange.”
