Martín Acosta
Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Born in Argentina in 1960. He studied history at the UDELAR and History of Art at the AAMNBA.
Currently it does independently. This represented by the File Manager Latino and is organized by the Reuters agency.
Started as a photojournalist in the agency Noticias Argentinas and has subsequently worked in the newspaper Clarin and La Nacion, in Greenpeace. Page 12. magazines News and The Graphic.
Its most outstanding hedges are Atlanta '96 Olympics and Sydney'00. The World Cup in EEUU'94 and Francia'98, War of the Condor, the Carrasco case and the case Maria Soledad.
Teaches courses, workshops and conferences. Director of the School of Photojournalism of the Association of Graphic Reporters of Argentina between 2006 and 2012. Professor of the "Argraescuela" in Photojournalism I from 2001 to the present. Director and founder of Expression Groups Pictures between 2007 and 2014.
His original training is self-taught but honed his skills in the visual arts in clinics and workshops with Sebastiao Salgado, Fred Ritchin, Christian Caujolle, ABBAS, Katty Ryan, Robert Pledge, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Ernesto Bazan and Patricia Mendoza, Eduardo Grossman, among others. In clinical visual arts and analysis work Tulio de Sagastizábal and Career General History of Art at the AAMNBA.
His most outstanding works are "Argentina, Crisis, crisis, crisis," "Daguerromiserias" DNA, ghost stories "and" Mennonites, the millennium ","
POYi awards, Latin America Award 2011. Profile 2010/2011, best journalistic photo of the year. Journalistic Excellence Award 2001 (granted by Inter American Press). Prize for the best work of photojournalism year, 2011, 1999, 1998 and 1992 (granted by ADEPA). Press Photo award for the newspaper La Nacion (1989).
Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, 1997 and the New Latin American Journalism, 2003. Foundation is the author of independent publishing "ADN, ghost stories."
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