Teodelina Detry is a visual artist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1975. She studied Art Direction and Photography in Buenos Aires, Geneva and New York. Her work reflects in a silent and poetic tone, about the search for freedom and the fragility of life.

While living in Switzerland, she continued studying photography with Aline Kundig and Athena Carey. And back in Argentina with Inés Miguens, Santiago Carrera, Ana Sánchez Zinny, Vivian Galbán and at Proyecto Imaginario. She also took workshops with Alain Laboile, Esteban Pastorino, Marcos López and Laura Letinsky amongst others.

Since 2017, her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. In Buenos Aires, at the Tattersal Palermo, at BAphoto with Zona de Photo Gallery, at Mundo Nuevo Art Gallery, at Otra Feria and at Cecilia Caballero Gallery. In Uruguay, at CAMPO and Galería del Paseo. In Paris with Fotógrafas Latam. In Finland at the Helsinki Photo Festival and in Brazil, at SPArte Fair with Mario Cohen Gallery.

Her work has been highlighted in specialized magazines and various editorial publications. In March 2020, she published her first photography book, “La Anémona es una flor que se abre al menor golpe de viento”, (“The Anemone is a Flower that Opens Herself to the Slightest Touch of Wind”). And the same year she received the IPA Award for the "Book Photographer of the Year ».

« We Long to Return » In this project I try to raise awareness on the urgent need we have in redefining our relationship with Nature. It is constantly and desperately asking for empathy and change. We just have to see it.

HER WORK