Biography:
Born: May 22, 1950 in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico.
Education in photography: 1976-1977 Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, N.Y.
Grants:
1993 Recipient of a three year grant from the National Endowment for the Culture and the Arts, Mexico City.
1994 Recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship to pursue her photographic project on Mexico City.
1997 Recipient of a three year grant from the National Endowment for the Culture and the Arts, Mexico City.
2000 Recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Culture and the Arts, to publish a book of photographs about Mexico City.
2003 Recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Culture and the Arts to continue working on her personal projects.
Photographic experience: In 1977 started working as still photographer for a mexican film production company; freelance photographer for several magazines; staff photographer at Editorial Provenemex, S.A.; from 1991 to 1994 worked for the National Endowment for the Culture and the Arts; in 1992 started teaching photography in Escuela de Fotografía Nacho López, Centro de la Imagen (Image Center), Technological University: Tecnológico de Monterrey, in Mexico City, as well as in several cities of Mexico..
Statement:
Photography and Popular Culture
After more than 25 years shooting photographs in black and white, in 2003 I started using a digital camera and began exploring color in my photographic work. I have always been a street photographer and continue looking for my subject matters in the streets of Mexico City as well as other urban settings. In my latest body of work I investigate the relationship between color and popular culture and how the last one influences the major arts, as well as how painting, movies, TV and other media produce changes in the traditional and popular mexican culture.
In this project I am also depicting the imaginary worlds of people in different cities, their way of expressing that reality that feeds on the mundane, of their surrounding images and the way they are integrated and transform an entire universe in which reality and desires are intertwined.
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