Mexican artist Teresa Margolles (Culiacán, Mexico, 1963) has received the "Purificación García" Latin American Photography Prize for her work La Esperanza (Hope, 2014). As result the work becomes part of the Colección de Fotografía Purificación Garcia. Teresa Margolles is one of the most prominent Mexican artists in the current artistic scene. She represented Mexico in the 2009 Venice Biennale and has exhibited her work at important museums and other cultural institutions. Margolles relies on photography, installation, performance and video to analyze organic death from an artistic perspective. Through her work, Margolles explores violence, social injustice, repression and drug trafficking in Mexico. The image captured in La Esperanza was taken by Margolles during her continuous documentation of the ravages caused by drug trafficking in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. Upon finding the abandoned property of what was once a family-owned business named "Abarrotes La Esperanza," Margolles began to wonder about the very concept of hope. For this edition of the event, the jury was formed by Celia Sredni de BIrbragher, director of ArtNexus magazine, and Rosana A. Agrelo, responsible for the Colección de Fotografía Purificación García.