Luis González Palma (1957) is a Guatemalan photographer. Much of his work "has revolved around the strange hybrids of race and culture that add up to Latin America." [1]
Luis González Palma, was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala in 1957. After training to be an architect [2] at Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, [3] he began a career in photography and video. [4]
His first individual exhibition, Autoconfesion, was in 1989 at the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, and had a breakthrough at the Houston FotoFest in 1992. [5] [6] He was awarded the Gran Premio PHotoEspaña award in 1999, exhibited his work in the 49th and 51st Venice Biennale, [6] and contributed to the production of The Death and the Maiden in the Malmö Opera, 2008. [7]