Pedro Valtierra

Pedro Valtierra was born on 1955 in Fresnillo, Zacatecas. He is a recognized mexican photographer and founder of the photography agency Cuartoscuro and the magazine with the same name. Although he doesn't consider himself and artist, he has won several awards due to his work. He is a specialist on capturing moment of Mexico's modern history and of some other countries in conflict. His sensitivity and journalistic instinct have helped him to witness reality, express it and having a political and social point of view through the lens.

Yvonne Venegas

Yvonne Venegas is a graduate of the certification program at the International Center of Photography in New York and received her MFA at University of California San Diego. In New York she assisted photographers such as Dana Lixenberg, Bruce Weber and Juergen Teller. She has shown her work individually and in group shows throughout the US, Mexico, Poland, Spain, France and Canada, including Tijuana Sessions (as part of ARCO 05) in Alcalá 31 of Madrid, in the traveling show From Baja to Vancouver, in the Seattle Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (MCASD) , the Wattis Center in San Francisco and Vancouver Art Gallery; the Exhibition Strange New World: Art and Design from Tijuana, and individually in Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, Casa de America in Madrid, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Diaz Contemporary Gallery in Toronto and the Museé a Beaux Arts, of Orleáns, France.

She was awarded top honors for the series The most Beautiful Brides of Baja California at the prestigious, tenth annual Bienal de Fotografía, organized by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, the stART up Award from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and in 2010 she received the Magnum expression Award, given by the renowned photography agency Magnum, as well as the Sistema Nacional de Creadores Grant by the Mexican Cultural and Arts Fund. Her work is part of collections in the US and Mexico, including the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary art San Diego, Fundación Televisa, Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City and Anna Abello Collection. Also in 2010 her book Maria Elvia de Hank was published by the editorial house RM.

Her photographic work explores issues of class, gender and personal representation in accordance to a participation in a specific class structure. Yvonne now lives and works in Mexico City.

Her work is represented by Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

Debutantes. 2003. Tijuana, Baja California.

Bebé en el aire. 2003. Tijuana, Baja California.

La güera y Nirvana. 2006.

Dr. Campos y Edgar. 2008.

Alberca. 2006.

Graciela Iturbide

Graciela Iturbide was born in 1942 in Mexico City. In 1969 she enrolled at the age of 27 at the film school Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos at the Universidad Nacional Autónama de México to become a film director. However she was soon drawn to the art of still photography as practiced by the Mexican modernist master Manuel Alvarez Bravo who was teaching at the University. From 1970-71 she worked as Bravo’s assistant accompanying him on his various photographic journeys throughout Mexico.

In the early half of the 1970s, Iturbide traveled widely across Latin America in particular to Cuba and several trips to Panama. In 1978 Iturbide was

commissioned by the Ethnographic Archive of the National Indigenous Institute of Mexico to photograph Mexico’s indigenous population. Iturbide decided

to document and record the way of life of the Seri Indians, a group of fisherman living a nomadic lifestyle in the Sonora desert in the north west of Mexico,

along the border with Arizona, US.

In 1979 she was invited by the artist Francisco Toledo to photograph the Juchitán people who form part of the Zapotec culture native to Oaxaca in

southern Mexico. Iturbide’s series that started in 1979 and runs through to 1988 resulted in the publication of her book Juchitán de las Mujeres in 1989.

Between 1980 and 2000, Iturbide was variously invited to work in Cuba, East Germany, India, Madagascar, Hungary, Paris and the US, producing a

number of important bodies of work. She has enjoyed solo exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou (1982), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1990),

Philadelphia Museum of Art (1997), Paul Getty Museum (2007), MAPFRE Foudation, Madrid (2009), Photography Museum Winterthur (2009), and

Barbican Art Gallery (2012), between others. Iturbide is the recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Foundation Award, 1987; the Grand Prize Mois de

la Photo, Paris, 1988; a Guggenheim Fellowship for the project ‘Fiesta y Muerte’, 1988; the Hugo Erfurth Award, Leverkusen, Germany, 1989; the

International

Grand Prize, Hokkaido, Japan, 1990; the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie Award, Arles, 1991; the Hasselblad Award, 2008; the National

Prize of Sciences and Arts in Mexico City in 2008; an Honorary Degree in photography from the Columbia College Chicago in 2008; and an Honorary

Doctorate of Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009.She continues to live and work in Mexico City. Currently she is preparing an exhibition of

her new work at the Amparo Museum in Puebla, Mexico that will be in February 2013.Su fotografía se centra en la sencillez, retrata la vida de las personas, así como del ritmo y calidez de su gente y tradiciones. Graciela consiguió atrapar la esencia y espíritu del pueblo mexicano, realidades y contrastes, así como la eternización del instante natural.

Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas, Juchitán, Oaxaca, 1979

La ascensión, Chalma, Edo. de México, 1984

El señor de los pájaros. Nayarit. 1984.

Pájaros en el poste. 1990.

Baño de Frida. Coyoacán, México. 2007

Pedro Meyer

Pedro Meyer is one of the pioneers and most recognized representatives of contemporary photography. He was the founder and president of the Consejo Mexicano de Fotografía (Mexican Council of Photography) 1975 and organizer of the first three Latin American Photography Colloquiums. Besides his artistic photographic work, Pedro Meyer has been a teacher in various prestigious institutions, as well as the curator, editor, founder and director of the renowned photography website ZoneZero, which hosts the work of over a thousand photographers from all over the world.

In 2004 Pedro Meyer set himself what seemed like an impossible goal: to hold the first world wide simultaneous retrospective. This project, titled Heresies, comprised of over 60 simultaneous exhibitions in 17 countries around the world, a data base containing his entire life's work (+450,000 images and documents) and a book with the same title. This worldwide retrospective was celebrated during October 2008. Each exhibition was different from the other, as the curators chose from a pool of 3000 images, setting to rest the notion that there is only one curatorial voice that is the right one.

In 1991 he published the very first CD ROM in the world that had "wall to wall" images and sound, titled "I Photograph to Remember". He is also the author of the books "Tiempos de América" (American Times), "Espejo de Espinas" (Mirror of Thorns), "Los Cohetes duraron todo el día" (The Fireworks Lasted All Day).

Todos somos palomas.

La anunciación. 1980. Ocumicho, Michoacán, México.

enmascarado gon golpe. 2002. Ciudad de México.

Somosa destruido.

Cuando los cielos eran limpios. Pátzcuaro, Michoacán. 1972

La tormenta amenza. Xalpa, Veracruz. 2004.

Gabriel Figueroa

Gabriel Figueroa Mateos (April 24, 1907 – April 27, 1997) was a Mexican cinematographer who worked both in Mexican cinema and Hollywood.