María Cristina Orive

She then moved to Paris where, in addition to working as a correspondent for El Imparcial, she presented ORTF Spanish-language television programmes on Latin American artists.

She then started to work as a photojournalist for ASA Press, contributing to journals such as the Spanish version of Life.

Moving to South America, she sailed through the Panama Canal on a Soviet ship, took impressive images of Eva Duarte and the funeral of Juan Perón, and met Salvador Allende and other celebrities.

[2] When she was just 30, together with the Argentine photographer Sara Facio, she founded La Azotea, a publishing house in Buenos Aires devoted to the work of Latin American artists, including Luis González Palma from Guatemala and Martín Chambi from Peru, among others.

The first business of its kind in South America, it has published the work of some 100 photographers, many publications running to the second or third edition.