Marcela Taboada
(1958 Puebla, Pue. México)
Free-lance photographer based in Oaxaca since 1986. Her work has been published in newspapers, magazines, numerous books and art catalogues in Mexico and abroad. She has taught photography in universities, high schools, workshops for children and blind photographers, and at Santa Fe Photographic Workshops and at the National Geographic PhotoCamp.
She produced international workshops in Oaxaca with American photographer Mary Ellen Mark for fifteen years.
She has received awards and distinctions, including the Biennale of Photojournalism-Mexico, Latin American Photography Biennial-Denmark, Stipend from the Hasselblad Foundation- Switzerland, National Geographic All Roads Photographers-USA; Mexico-Indonesia Cultural Exchange; Planet Magazine award-EUA; National System of Art Creators of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts-Mexico; Héctor and María García Foundation award- Mexico; Nikon International jury-Japan.
Her work is in collections of The Hasselblad Center; Sonoma Museum of Art; Throckmorton Fine Art NY; The Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago; The Wittliff Collection; Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Oaxaca; among others.