Adriana Groisman was born in 1959 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and studied photography at the International Center of Photography in New York (1984-85). A freelance photographer, since 1989 she has developed a personal project on tango in Argentina represented by Contact Press Images. Her work has appeared in major publications in the USA and abroad, including The Smithsonian Magazine, The Atlantic, Black and White Magazine, Aperture, Sette-Corriere della Sera in Italy and French GEO. Her project received a Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography Award in 2000. She is based in New York City.