María Cristina Orive

María Cristina Orive (1930/1931 – 2 September 2017) was a Guatemalan photographer who has worked as a photojournalist. Together with Sara Facio, she founded the Buenos Aires publishing house La Azotea which specializes in publishing the work of Latin American photographers.

Biography

Born in Antigua, she first worked as a radio and newspaper reporter covering art, music and theatre for Radio Faro Aviateca and El Imparcial. 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.

Death Orive died on 2 September 2017, aged 86.

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