Panorama of Argentine Photography/Rabobank Collection is the first collection of a private institutional character in Argentina. The series aims to support the most relevant photographers here, thus also contributing to the distribution of their work. One of the collection’s most important criteria is direct photography, while it also strives to incorporate the most emblematic works of each photographer. Through their works these artists present a coherent panorama of Argentina, its people and their customs. So far, the collection has incorporated works by many talented photographers, from the nineteen thirties until the present day.
Panorama of Argentine Photography/Rabobank Collection will be presented to the public for the first time during Buenos Aires Photo. As Rabobank has been sponsoring this important event for Argentine art from the beginning, the framework is very apt. Works of the first twenty photographers incorporated into the collection will be shown on this occasion, but next year a more comprehensive exhibition will take place whereas a bilingual edition detailing the collection will also be presented.
Panorama of Argentine Photography/Rabobank Collection not only connects the past with the present, but is first and foremost, a pledge to the future of Argentine photography. Rabobank also hopes that this project, setting up a photography collection, may serve as an example to others to encourage the work of Argentine artists, thus contributing to the preservation and distribution of their output.

Photographers whose work will be exhibited during Buenos Aires Photo (in alphabetical order):
Jorge Aguirre, Eduardo Comesaña, Horacio Coppola, Alicia D’Amico, Sara Facio, Cristina Fraire, Annemarie Heinrich, Adriana Lestido, Marcos López, Sameer Makarius, Esteban Pastorino, Oscar Pintor, Humberto Rivas,  Anatole Saderman,  Grete Stern, Juan Travnik, Gabriel Valansi, Dani Yako, Marcos Zimmermann and Facundo de Zuviría.

Curators of the collection: Marjan Groothuis, art historian (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands) and Facundo de Zuviría, photographer.

	Grete Stern, at the corner of Cordoba and Esmeralda street, 1951/52
Sameer Makarius, the obelisk in Buenos Aires, ca. 1960
	Humberto Rivas, the Tigre delta, 1990
Horacio Coppola, 3000 Corrientes street, 1931