Meetings - May 3, 2007

Dulce Pinzón is a documentary photographer born in Mexico City. She studied at the Universidad de Las Americas in Puebla Mexico and the Indiana University in Pennsylvania. In 1995, she moved to New York where she continued her studies at The International Center of Photography (ICP). As a young Mexican artist living in the US, Dulce soon found new inspiration for her photography in feelings of nostalgia, questions of identity, and political and cultural frustrations. In her black and white series Viviendo en el Gabacho (a Mexican colloquialism for living in the US) she illustrates the dualistic phenomenon of the integration of the Mexican immigrant into the New York landscape. This concept of dualism was further developed in a piece she called Loteria where she used popular images from a Mexican card game projected over the naked bodies of her New York friends and loved ones. Multiracial portrait subjects of multiracial heritage against primary color backgrounds, exposing the frailty of our concepts of race.

In her latest project, The Real Story of the Superheroes, she completes a full circle in reintroducing the Mexican immigrant in New York in a satirical documentary style featuring ordinary men and women in their work environment donning superhero garb. She raises questions of both our definition of heroism and our ignorance of and indifference to the workforce that fuels our ever-consuming economy