Darcy Padilla
Blizzard at Standing Rock, 2016/2021

Pigment inkjet print on cotton rag paper, 16 x 24 inches
AP, signed, verso
Unframed
Courtesy of the artist
Estimated value: $6,000

December 5, 2016. The blizzard came to Sacred Stone Camp the day after construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline was halted. Where the Cannonball and Missouri rivers meet, the stronghold camp waved 300 different tribal flags. From the series "Standing Rock."

About the Artist:
Darcy Padilla

Darcy Padilla is a documentary photographer based in San Francisco and a member photographer of Agence VU' in Paris. Padilla earned her MFA from the University of California, Davis, and she is an associate professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Padilla’s honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Open Society Institute Individual Fellowship, Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, Getty Images Grant, International Photo-reporter Grant, Canon Female Photojournalist Award, World Report Master Award, three World Press Photo Awards, and a W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. She was a judge on Sky Arts’ Master of Photography, a television program simulcast to Austria, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and the United Kingdom. The novelist Emmanuel Carrère profiled her for the premiere issue of 6Mois (France) and selected it for his collection 97,196 Words: Essays.

Her photographs have been exhibited and published internationally, including in Granta, Stern, The New Yorker, Le Monde, and The New York Times, with solo exhibitions at Cortona On The Move (Italy), Festival Nicéphore (France), Visa pour l’image (France), and DOCfield Festival (Spain) at the contemporary art museum Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona. Her work is held in the collections of the Chazen Museum, Madison, WI; Soros Foundation, New York; and Banco Sabadell Art Collection, Barcelona.

Padilla’s monograph Family Love, published by Éditions de La Martinière in France, follows a family for 21 years—an intimate story of poverty, AIDS, and social issues. Her work focuses on long-term projects about struggle and the transgenerational effects.

Website: darcypadilla.com
Instagram: @darcypadilla