Adriana Lestido studied photography at the Institute of Photographic Art and Audiovisual Techniques in Avellaneda.

The basic emotions give meaning to her black and white photographs of teenage mothers, women prisoners, mother-daughter relationships, and love through abstract and misty landscapes.

Adriana Lestido is the author of several essays and books including Mujeres presas in 2001 and 2008, Madres e hijas in 2003, Interior in 2010, La Obra in 2011, and Lo Que Se Ve in 2012.

Fotografías 1979/2007, shown at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Argentina between May and July 2013, Lo Que Se Ve (What Can Be Seen), exhibited in 2014 at the Art Gallery, Consulate General and Promotion Center of the Argentine Republic, New York, USA.

[1] Her exhibitions have been seen in Argentina, Mexico, The Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Germany, France, South Africa, Spain, Brazil, New York, Ohio, and California.