(b. Guatemala City, Guatemala, 1957).
This photographer first studied architecture and cinematography at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. González Palma is perhaps the most successful Latin American photographer today. The subject matter of his most well-known work is the indigenous and mestizo populations of his native Guatemala. González Palma very early in his carrier found his calling in constructed and staged photography. Many of his works are collages, others are straight prints, while still others are assemblages of objects. Many of his images are portraits of indigenous men, women and children dressed up emblematically to incarnate a character of mythology and/or popular culture. Often, his black and white photographs are painted over in a sepia medium, leaving only the whites of the eyes of his sitters unpainted. This type of rendering produces an almost hypnotic effect in the viewer as he/she confronts González Palma's characters.His solo
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