Photographic Archive 

Lou Peralta manages and promotes her Photography Archive Collection with 7 Funds.

The archive, whose narrative focuses on portraiture, was created from the work of editorial photographer Ana Lourdes Herrera "Lou Peralta", who worked with numerous magazines and private customers starting in the 1980s, and was official photographer for Mexico’s Palace of Fine Arts Opera/INBA in the years 2011-2018.

She was also co-founder and editorial designer of the journal Foto Forum starting in 1988. After more than 30 years of work in portraiture using analog media, and later digital media, in 2016 Ana Lourdes began her career as a visual artist under the pseudonym Lou Peralta.  Through her contemporary photography, she pushes the limits of photography, closing a cycle of four generations engaged in portraiture, from the legendary “Estudio Herrera.”

Peralta inherited the family collection of old photo albums from her mother, Yolanda Peralta, and is also custodian for the archive of her father, Héctor Herrera, which is in the process of being cataloged.

The archive currently consists of seven funds:

1.- The Ana Lourdes Herrera photography Fund (1980-2018)

2.- Lou Peralta Visual artist Fund (2016-present)

3.- Yolanda Peralta Fund (1936-2016)

4.- Hector Herrera (1934) Studio Photography Fond. 

5.- Gloria Zapari (1932-2019) Fond. 

6 and 7.- There are other collections within the Ana Lourdes Peralta fond, like the Modern Photography collection and Contemporary Photography . There is also a collection of “Photobooks” by various contemporary authors.

This Archive is present in Fotobservatorio, Patrimonio Fotográfico Mexicano: http://fotobservatorio.mx/fototeca?id=86