Méndez Ezcurra, Julie

Julie Méndez Ezcurra had a broad humanistic and language education, including a degree in Sacred Sciences, Spanish American Literature, Contemporary Spanish Literature, art courses at the Prado Museum, Old Testament Literature and Hispanic-Arabic Art, English language and literature at the West London College in London, and visual arts classes at the British Museum, Tate Gallery, and The National Gallery. Upon returning to Buenos Aires in 1972, she worked as a translator and taught religion and English. From 1974 onwards, she joined as a writer and translator of English and French at the International Press and Photography Agency Argenpress, where she continued as a photographer after training at the Foto Club Buenos Aires. Simultaneously, she held exhibitions (such as the solo exhibition "Quioscos y Periodismo en la Argentina" in Lisbon) and was a regular participant in the calls of the Argentine Photography Council from 1982. In 1980, she won the prize for best female-authored color slide photograph in the Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires competition. She participated in the 1st International Biennial of Photographic Art in São Paulo, Brazil, where she was awarded an honorable mention. Her life was tragically cut short in the midst of her artistic evolution after a brief illness. Her mother Julia and her siblings and friends decided to commission a book to keep her work alive. Photographer Facundo de Zuviría first reorganized her archive, selecting images published in the book "Julie Méndez Ezcurra – Photographs," which was presented alongside the solo exhibition "Portrait of the Eternal" in 1994 at the Isaac Fernández Blanco Museum of Hispanic-American Art. Since 1994, Patricia Viaña has overseen the Julie Méndez Ezcurra Archive and has held solo exhibitions with the guidance of photographer Luis Martin.