# Work by Cuban Photographer Julio César García at Soho Photo Gallery, New York

**Date:** 01/05/2022

María Cristina, a work by Julio César García, a Cuban creator whose studio is based in Matanzas, is included among the pieces that will be part of an exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of the Soho Photo Gallery, an organization that promotes artistic photography in the American city of New York.

García explained to the Cuban News Agency that the exhibition, with its opening scheduled for January 7th, will provide a look at the first half-century of existence of the gallery founded in 1971 by photographers from the newspaper The New York Times.

The Soho Photo Gallery operates as a cooperative, with its members sponsoring its operations; in addition to facilitating exhibitions, it holds various events to increase visibility of the work of its membership and emerging young artists, he argued.

In September 2019, the Soho Photo Gallery hosted El Reino de Este Mundo, the first exhibition by a Cuban in that space, and the work María Cristina belongs to that series, added the artist, whose Studio-Workshop is located at Contreras 74, in the city of rivers and bridges.

El Reino de Este Mundo constitutes a multi-awarded photographic series in international events, and it also transcended as Julio César García's proposal in the Intermittent Rivers project that brought the XIII Havana Biennial to the city of Matanzas.

The pieces that will be on view in the exhibition "Looking Back: Soho Photo's First 50 Years," from January 7th to 30th, will be included in a charity art auction, and the proceeds will be used to support innovative photography from the gallery.

He also adds that since its founding in 1971, the Soho Photo Gallery created a special creative community through programs and platforms for emerging and established artists, sustained by a growing appreciation for photography.