Luis Delgado-Qualtrough is a Mexican-American visual artist, photographer, and publisher. His photographic prints, artist books, and publications deal with history, memory, and culture through visual narratives that merge documentary traditions with cinematic, sequential image-making. Beginning in the 1970s as a documentary photographer in Mexico, Delgado’s work evolved into a graphic conceptual language that examines social identity, memory, and culture. His work often combines narrative sequences, humor, and constructed imagery to create idea-driven content that offers a questioning point of view.
His work has been shown internationally and is in collections such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH); Bibliothèque Nationale de France; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College; Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin; Stanford Libraries; The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley; and the Centro de la Imagen (Mexico).
In 2012 he started Malulu Editions, dedicated to producing artist books and print folios that extend his exploration of narrative, culture, and visual language.