Francisco Mata Rosas
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Born in Mexico City in 1958, Francisco Mata Rosas received his degree in photo-journalism in the early 1980s. His photography has appeared in many publications including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, La Jornada, Milenio, Reforma, The Independent Magazine, Photography (London) and El Paseante (Spain). His work has been exhibited in Mexico, Holland, Germany, France, Scotland, England, and Japan as well as across the U.S.
He has received numerous honors including the 1988 Prize of Acquisition at the Biennial of Mexican photography, Prize of Honor in the Bicentennial of the French Revolution in 1989, and the Third Annual Mother Jones photography award in 1993. His first publication was Sábado de Gloria (Grupo Deseo, 1994). His next publication, Litorales (Centro de la Imagen, 2000), with Eniac Martínez Ulloa, featured panoramic images taken on the seashores (litorales) of Mexico with a plastic camera, an Ansco Pix Panorama. Rosas has documented religious festivals in Mexico City and children in Havana.
He continues to take photographs with toy cameras and has been published widely on the internet. Two projects he¹s working on now involve Mexico City and the metro. The Wittliff Gallery is proud to include thirty-one images of his so far.
SOURCES Sábado de Gloria by Francisco Mata Rosas (Grupo Deseo, 1994) and Toy Camera, www.toycamera.com
Carnaval
Tenejapa, Chiapas
1994
Silver gelatin print
Francisco Mata Rosas
