Beginning this Wednesday, October 29th, Buenos Aires Photo 2008 will showcase some of the best photography from artists around all of Latin America.According to My Buenos Aires Travel Guide, this is the event’s fourth year and it has grown and grown, perhaps because it is the only art fair that specializes on Latin American photography.This year, there are 30 galleries from 10 Latin American countries: Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Perú, Bolivia, Mexico, Colombia, United States, Dominican Republic, and Spain.In addition to these galleries, works by the finalists of the Petrobras Buenos Aires Photo Award 2008 will be presented.The festival takes place at the Palais de Glace on Posadas 1725 and entrance is 15 pesos.

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The “Festival de la Luz,” or festival of light, is a celebration of photography that takes place in 22 cities across Argentina, including Buenos Aires, Mendoza, Salta, and La Rioja.According to the official website, the scope of the “exhibit” is enormous. It comprises over 80 different photographic exhibits, shown at museums and cultural centers, as well as round table discussions, films, and photography workshops.In Buenos Aires, the festival will take place in some of the city’s most well known venues, including the Recoleta Cultural Center and the Borges Cultural Center.The festival begins August 1st and goes until September 30th, so those traveling around the country in the next two months will have many opportunities to enjoy this massive celebration of photography, which drew 1,200,000 visitors last year.

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María Eugenia Cerutti, a photographer for the Clarín (a major newspaper in Buenos Aires), won the photography prize from the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (Foundation of New Journalism in Latin America) which Gabriela Garcia Marquez presides over.The highest honor for a photographer in Latin America, this prize honors Cerutti’s work on the photo article entitled “Una empresa eléctrica y mortal” (“A Business Electric and Deadly”). This photo essay showed the effects of a high tension electrical station on the nearby residents of Ezpeleta, who were getting extremely sick. The research took three years to complete and Cerutti says that the prize makes her believe in continuing her hard work as a journalist. Cerutti will journey to Monterrey, Mexico to receive her award.

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