Eastern Projects is pleased to announce: “THE END OF SILENCE”, a solo exhibition by photographer Antonio Turok. Show runs from Saturday, October 9, 2021, to Saturday, November 27, 2021. The opening reception takes place on Saturday, October 9, 2021, 5pm-9pm. This event is free and open to the public. Please note that in an effort to reduce the risk of COVID-19 and to help prevent the spread of the virus, masks are required to attend this event. No exceptions. Thank you for your cooperation.

Antonio Turok: The End of Silence
This exhibition is a brief look at a 40-year career of a one of Mexico’s most important documentary photographers. Here, Antonio Turok has documented the indigenous communities of Mexico such as the civil uprisings in Chiapas and Oaxaca, and has also photographed the civil wars of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, as well as the event changed the United States forever 9/11 in NYC. These haunting and ethereal images seek to document the humanity of displacement and loss.

“The difference between a photojournalist and a documentary photographer is that while the former seeks to record the event, the latter wonders why it happened, he creates a script in his head about what he wants to convey. The documentary photographer must study what he is going to photograph, being a kind of anthropologist, sociologist, having a background in art history, it is the only way in which the photographer can become an integral part of that experience. He must be passionate about the story he will document.” – Antonio Turok

ABOUT ANTIONIO TUROK

Antonio Turok was born In Mexico City in 1955. He is an internationally known documentary photographer who has worked in Central America, Mexico, and the United States for over 40 years. Mr. Turok lives and teaches in Oaxaca, Mexico where he actively documents the human drama that surrounds him.