Photographer
 
Paula Luttringer was born in La Plata, Argentina in 1955. Her studies in Botany were cut short in 1977, because she went into exile after having been kidnapped and held for five months in a Secret Detention Centre.
 
Upon returning to Argentina in 1995, she turned to photography as a means of expression. The subject matter of her photographic work concerns the meeting point between her country’s recent history and her own personal one. In 1996 she was chosen by the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires as one of the twenty photographers of the "New Generation". In 1999, she won the best Portfolio Prize at PhotoEspaña, for her project "El Matadero" (The Slaughterhouse). The following year, she was awarded an artist’s grant by the National Arts Fund of Argentina for her project "El Lamento de los Muros" (The Wailing of the Walls). Again for this project she was awarded a fellowship in 2002 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, USA. In 2006 Luttringer was finalist of the grant "The Aftermath Project".
 
Her works now form part of the collections of the National Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, France, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, TX, USA, the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, USA, and the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, USA.