Vivian Maier

I don´t know if I really have a favorite artist but possibly at the moment is Vivian Maier.

Vivian was an american street photographer, worked for forty years as a nanny.
She took a lot of photographs during her spare time but her work was not recognized until her death.

Vivian was a nanny who loved to took pictures when she went outside  for a walk with the children she had care.

Maier photographed everything that caught her eyes, children, homeless people, poverty, but in a very sensitive way/manner.

A young photographer named John Malof found thousand of negatives that belonged to vivian, later would become famous.

I like this photographer because she never studied anything, was a self-taught.
Even so her work was wonderful, she never sought to be recognized for her work, always hid her photographs, ///but never knew why she did it///

I remember I met this photographer when I saw a documentary called Looking for Vivian Maier and it seemed so mysterious that I started searching all her works.

I loved the way she portrayed the reality.
Last year I was lucky enough to visit a photographic exhibition of her in Valparaiso and it was very nice.

I recommend you to see the documentary.