El Sur

Julio Mitchel (b. Havana, Cuba, in 1942), moved to New York City when he was seventeen-years-old. He studied photography under renowned photographer Lisette Model at the New School, which helped shape his unique documentary style. His work has been widely exhibited internationally including at the Museum of Modern Art (IVAM) in Spain, the Musee de lElysee in Switzerland, Galerie Vier Berlin in Germany, and the Rencontres dArles festival in France, and is held in major permanent collections, among them the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), the International Center of Photography, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Polaroid International Collection.