Merle, Daniel

Between 1976 and 1979, he worked as a photojournalist for the SIGLA photographic agency in Buenos Aires and later for LA NACIÓN newspaper as a staff photographer for its Sunday magazine. From 1986 to 1989, he freelanced as a photographer for The New York Times and Reuters News Agency. Subsequently, he was appointed photographer for Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay for Reuters, receiving training in digital editing and transmission at the agency's headquarters in Washington D.C. Starting in 1993, he served as Chief Photography Editor for VIVA magazine at Clarín, and since 1997, as Photography Editor for the supplements of La Nación newspaper in Buenos Aires. In 1999, he began teaching photojournalism at the TEA official school's photojournalism program, and in 2003, he initiated the FotoDoc Workshop. Since its inception, the Documentary Photography Workshop has produced six authored books, eight exhibitions, and a set of postcards. Since 2008, he has covered various photography festivals for his blog at La Nación newspaper, including PhotoEspaña, Visa Pour L´image in Perpignan, PhotoFest Houston, New York PhotoFestival, the Documentary Photography Biennial in Tucumán, the Lima Photography Biennial, and Les Rencontres d’Arles. In 2009, he co-founded the Nano Photography Festival with a group of friends, held at the Centro Cultural Borges, later at the Arte x Arte gallery, and subsequently at the Centro Cultural Recoleta and the Latin American Photographic Archive. Throughout his career, he has held numerous exhibitions, including the Argentine exhibition at the Latin American Photography Colloquium (Second Edition, Havana, Cuba), his solo portrait exhibition at Galería Benzacar in Buenos Aires, the collective exhibition "The Theater and Its Environment" organized by the Fotogalería of the General San Martín Municipal Theater, the exhibition "Surveillance Democracy" (1977-1988) in Mexico City, a joint exhibition with photographer Dany Yako titled "In Buenos Aires" at the Centro Cultural Recoleta, an individual exhibition dedicated to street photography at the main gallery of the Alliance Française in Buenos Aires, the exhibition "Bad Memory" curated by Juan Travnik at the Fotogalería of the San Martín Theater in Buenos Aires, and the individual exhibition "40 Years in 24 Photos" at the Argentine Documentary Photography Biennial in Tucumán, among others. He has received numerous awards for his work.