(Mexico City, 1958)
Francisco Mata Rosas is a Mexican photographer. It is one of the most recognized exponents of contemporary photography. He studied Communication Sciences at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco 1979-1983. And the Master of Visual Arts at UNAM. He worked as a photojournalist in the newspaper La Jornada de México, 1986-1992. His photographic work has been published in several major newspapers and magazines in the United States, Spain, Canada, Italy, France, England and Mexico. His photographs have been exhibited in: Mexico, Holland, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, England, the United States, Scotland, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Panama, Uruguay, Ecuador, Peru, Honduras, Cuba and Costa Rica, to mention only some spaces.
Awards
Acquisition Award at the Biennial of Mexican Photography, 1988. Honor Award in the Bicentennial Contest of the French Revolution, Mexico-France, 1989. Young Creators Grant from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts, Mexico, 1989. Third Mother Jones Fund for Documentary Photography USA, 1993. Prize for Promotion and Co-investment of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts, 1994 and 1999. Artistic Residency at the Museum of Fine Arts in Orleans, France, within the framework of the 5th Recontres Photographiques d’Orléans, Une Saison Mexicaine. October-November, 2004. Honor of Distinction in Photojournalism, Black and White Spider Awards, 2006 It belongs to the National System of Creators of Mexico since 2000.
Publications
- Deep America, 1992
- Saturday of Glory, 1994
- Litorales, 2000
- Mexico Tenochtitlan, 2005
- Tepito Bravo the neighborhood!
- 2006 Noah’s Ark, 2009 A Trip
- The metro of the city of Mexico, 2011
Francisco Mata Rosas has given several workshops as well as more than 100 conferences on the subject of photography, image, new technologies, multimedia, post-photography, etc. in important festivals, museums and academic institutions in the United States, Mexico, England, Argentina, Spain, Brazil,
His work is in the following collections:• Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Amsterdam Holanda. • Southwest Texas State University, Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern and Mexican Photography. • Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japón. • Mother Jones Fund for Documentary Photography, San Francisco, USA. • Light Factory, Louisiana, USA. • Consejo Mexicano de Fotografía, México D.F. • Colección permanente de la Casa de la Cultura de Juchitán, Oaxaca. • Galería Metropolitana, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México, D.F. • Centro Cultural de México de la Embajada de México en París, Francia. • Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, México, D.F. • Galería Frida Kahlo de la UVyD, México, D.F. • Fototeca de Veracruz • Margolis Foundation, Tucson, Ar. USA • Club Fotográfico de México, A.C. • Guangdong Musueum of Art , Guangzhou, China • Centre for Latinamerican Cultural Studies, Universidad de Mánchester, UK. • Photography as Art Gallery, Fredericksburg, Texas, USA • Fundación Mariana Yampolski. • Coleccionistas particulares.
Links
Some of his photos:
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