Marco Antonio Cruz
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Marco Antonio Cruz was born in Puebla, Mexico on November 3, 1957. He studied painting in Puebla and a bit later on worked in Mexico City as Héctor García's assistant; as he learned more about photography, Cruz was heavily influenced by the work of Nacho Lopez.
Since 1979 he has been published as a photographer in major Mexican newspapers such as La Jornada and in magazines, most notably LIFE, which featured one of his well-known images from the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. In 1984, he and a group of colleagues created the photographic agency, Imagenlatina. He has participated in numerous exhibitions both individual and collective in Mexico and the U.S.; and he has published two books: Cafetaleros (Imagenlatina, 1996), documenting the exploitation of coffee workers in Guatemala and Contra la pared (Grupo Desea, 1993).
His series on blind people in Mexico is only one of the many distinguished photo essays he has created during years of work. In 2004-05, with the cooperation of Héctor García, Cruz printed 50 images from García's own negatives for the Wittliff Gallery collection. He still lives and works in the Distrito Federal and has recently launched his amazing website, which aims to document--with photographs, text, and moving images--vast Mexico City, formerly the Mexica capital known as Tenochtitlán. The Wittliff Gallery has in its collection twenty-seven photographs by Cruz and hopes to acquire more very soon.
Untitled [Holy Week Ceremony]
1985
Silver gelatin print
Marco Antonio Cruz
