About the artist:

Joséphine Sacabo lives and works mostly in New Orleans, where she has been strongly influenced by the unique ambience of the city. She is a native of Laredo, Texas, and was educated at Bard College, New York. Before mobbing to New Orleans, she lived and worked extensively in France and England. Her earlier work was in the photo-journalistic tradition, influenced by Robert Frank, Josef Koudelka, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. She now works in a very subjective, introspective style. She uses poetry as the genesis of her work and lists poets as her most important influences, among them Rilke, Baudelaire, Pedro Salinas, Vincente Huiobro, and Juan Rulfo, Mallarmé, and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Sacabo, has published four books of her work including "Une Femme Habitée" in Paris in 1991 by Editions Marval; award winning "Pedro Paramo" in 2002 by the University of Texas Press; "Cante Jondo" in 2002 and “Duino Elegie” in 2005 both by 21st Publishing. Sacabo has had solo shows in Paris, London, Madrid, Toulouse, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and other major U.S. cities. Her work has also been widely published in magazines in the United States and Europe and is in numerous Museum collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art; The Museum of Modern Art - N.Y.; The Smithsonian - Washington D.C.; The Library of Congress; among many others. Joséphine Sacabo has taught at a number of highly acclaimed workshops: the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles - France and at the Santa Fe Workshops. Exhibitions & Awards Selected Exhibitions 1975 – 1983 Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA 1976 Deville Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1977 Soho Photographic Gallery, New York, NY 1979 Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, LA 1981 Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA 1983 Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA 1984 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC 1985 New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA 1985 Mario Villa Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1986 New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA 1988 Mario Villa Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1988 Torino Biennale, Torino, Italy 1988-1990 New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA 1990 Gallery Junod, Lausanne, Switzerland 1990 Portfolio Gallery, London, England 1991 Galerie Fanny Guillon-Lafaille, Paris 1991 Mario Villa Gallery, Chicago, IL 1991 Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Richmond, VA 1991 Picture House, Leiscester, England 1991 Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, England 1991 Galerie du Château D’Eau, Toulouse, France 1992 Galerie du Château D’Eau, Toulouse, France 1993 Galeria El Cadejo, Antigua, Guatemala 1993 A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, LA 1994 Louisiana State University Gallery, Hammond, LA 1995 American Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium 1995 Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA 1997 A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, LA 1998 Sole Del Rio Gallery, Guatemala City, Guatemala 1998 Gallery of Contemporary Photography, Santa Monica, CA 1998 Photo España ‘98, Madrid, Spain 1998 Foto Septiembre, Puebla, Mexico 1999 Galeria Del Teatro, San Martin, Buenos Aires 1999 Centro Del Imagen, traveling exhibit, Mexico 2000 Photo Fusion Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL 2000 Steven L. Clark Gallery, Austin, TX 2001 Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY 2002 Steven L. Clark Gallery, Austin, TX 2003 “Lessons from the Shadows,” Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005 “Geometry of Echoes,”John Stevenson Gallery, New York, NY 2007 “Susana San Juan,” Galeria Pergola, San Miguel de Allende, MX Selected Permanent Collections ARCO Corporation Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris, France Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA George Eastman House Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, LA Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Lykes Steamship Company Maison Europeanne de la Photographie, Paris, France Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA Paris Audio-Visual, Paris, France Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, D.C. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Wittliff Collection of Southwestern and Mexican Art, San Marcos, TX Selected Solo Exhibitions 1976 Deville Gallery, New Orleans 1979 Historic New Orleans Collection 1981 Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans 1983 Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans 1985 Mario Villa Gallery, New Orleans 1988 Mario Villa Gallery, New Orleans 1990 Gallery Junod, Lausanne 1990 Portfolio Gallery, London 1991 Galerie Fanny Guillon-Lafaille, Paris 1991 Mario Villa Gallery, Chicago 1992 Galerie du Château D’Eau, Toulouse 1993 Galeria El Cadejo, Antigua, Guatemala 1993 A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans 1994 Louisiana State University Gallery 1995 American Cultural Center, Brussels 1997 A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans 1998 Sol Del Rio Gallery, Guatemala City, Guatemala 1998 Gallery of Contemporary Photography, Santa Barbara, CA 1998 Photo España ’98, Madrid 1998 Foto Septiembre, Puebla, Mexico 1999 Galeria Del Teatro, Buenos Aires 1999 Centro Del Imagen, Mexico 2000 Photo Fusion Gallery, West Palm Beach 2001 Woodstock Center for Photography, New York 2002 A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans 2003 Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago 2003 A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans 2004 John Stevenson Gallery, New York 2005 Verve Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2005 John Stevenson Gallery, New York 2005 Stephanie Hoppen Gallery, London, UK 2007 Galeria Pergola, San Miguel de Allende, MX 2008 Verve Fine Arts, Santa Fé New Mexico 2008 A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, LA. 2008 Hallmark Museum of Photography, Turner Falls, MA 2008 Galerie BMG, Woodstock, NY 2009 Galeria Pergola, San Miguel de Allende, MX 2010 Instituto Cultural de Mexico, San Antonio, TX 2010 Galería Pergola, San Miguel De Allende, Mexico 2010 Laredo Center for the Arts, Laredo, TX 2011 Verve Fine Arts Gallery, Santa Fé, NM 2011 A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, LA 2011 Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA Awards 1983 Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, 1st Prize 1984 Louisiana Photography Fellowship 1985 New Orleans Academy of the Fine Arts Best of Show 1986 Louisiana State University, Best of Show 1994 Artist in Residence, Ecole National de la Photographie, Arles 1996 Workshop Director, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles Monographs 2011 Óyeme con los Ojos 2004 Duino Elegies, 21ST Publishing 2002 Pedro Paramo, University of Texas Press 2002 Cante Jondo, 21ST Publishing 1991 Un Femme Habitée, Editions Marval, Paris Selected Publications AG Darkroom and Photography, London, England American Photographer, New York Art in America B & W Magazine, Santa Barbara, CA Camera Arts Magazine Cliché, Paris/Brussels, France Il Fotoamatore, Italy London Magazine Louisiana Cultural Vistas Partenaire, Paris Photo Metro, San Francisco Popular Photography, New York London Magazine, London, England Louisiana Cultural Vistas Partenaire, Paris Vis-á-Vis International, Paris London Sunday Times Magazine Zoom Magazine