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Brief
Biography
Coco Martin is an experienced visual
artist and photographer. He originally obtain his BA in Architecture
applying his knowledge with an special sensibility for composition
and visual aesthetics. Since 1991 he performs exhibitions and develops his
visual art work parallel to his work on request. As a wedding photographer
he is widely recognized, because his special artistic approach into
portraiture.
COCO MARTIN’s work was exhibited at the First Biennial of Photography of
Puerto Rico (1998), Second Biennial of Lima, Peru (2000) and at the
Biennial of Photography of Quito, Ecuador (2001). Additionally his work
has been exhibited and published in Peru, Spain and throughout Latin
America such as El Salvador and Argentina and he have had numerous group
exhibitions. He is founder and current director of openphotoperu.com, the first
web-collective of peruvian photographers.
Martin‘s art work has been recognized with the Exhibit Grant Award from
the Council on the Arts for Staten Island, NY and selected to perform at
the Annual Juried Exhibition at Staten Island Museum both in 2005. His work has
been published at different art magazines such as NYARTS Magazine,
GATOPARDO Magazine, Revista HELIO and LOCUS Magazine in Baltimore, USA. He
has participated at the 2005 Loisaida Cortos Latino Film
Festival in NY and AELLA FotoLatina à Paris in 2006.
After 8 years as a professor of photography in a private School of Visual
Arts in Lima, COCO MARTIN relocated and now lives and works in New York
City.
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