Luttringer, Paula

She interrupted her Botany studies when she had to go into exile in Uruguay in 1977 after being kidnapped for five months in a Clandestine Detention Center. Her photographic work focuses on the confluence between Argentina's recent history and her personal story. In 2001, she was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (New York, United States). In 2000, her project "The Lament of the Walls" was distinguished with the Creation Grant awarded by the National Fund for the Arts (FNA). That same year, the FotoFest festival chose her as one of the Discoveries of the Meeting Place. In 1999, she won the Best Portfolio Prize at PhotoEs (Madrid, Spain). In 1996, she was selected as one of the 20 photographers of the New Generation by the National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires (MNBA). Works of her authorship are held in the collections of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires (MNBA), the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires (MAMBA), the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in Texas, United States (MFAH), the Portland Art Museum in Oregon, United States, the Portuguese Photography Centre in Porto, Portugal, the George Eastman House Photography Collection in New York, United States, and the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, France (BnP), as well as various private collections.