Eduardo Gil's photographs brim with activity, but possess little joy. In one picture, youths run together holding hands, but Gil focuses on a man who appears pained by their frivolity. In other images, people seek help for their injured or dazed companions, or wait in lines for an unknown purpose. There seems to be no relief from their vague and indefinite troubles. Gil says that his pictures are metaphors for Argentina. Born in Buenos Aires in 1948, Eduardo Gil studied sociology at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and later became a commercial airline pilot. He has had one-person exhibitions in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, and his work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela; Museo de Arte Moderno de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris; and Casa de las Américas, Cuba. As a photojournalist, he has worked for some of Argentina's most important publications, and for numerous magazines, including Newsweek, National Geographic, The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph, and Der Spiegel. Since 1988, he has been Curator of the Permanent Photogallery at the Museo Municipal de Artes Plásticas in Chivilcoy, Argentina. Gil is associated with Black Star agency in New York. Back to Main Page Next Artist Previous Artist

Untitled, from the series Buenos Aires 1984-1996 Gelatin silver prints.