Rodrigo Moya
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Rodrigo Moya was born in Colombia in 1934 and moved to Mexico as a young man. He worked as a documentary photographer from 1956 to 1968 and collaborated with Mexican magazines such as Impacto, El Espectador, Siempre!, and Política y Sucesos among others. During these years he covered many revolutionary movements in Mexico and Latin America.
Over time he grew frustrated with photography and created an independent magazine specializing in marine biology called Técnica pesquera. He edited the magazine from 1968 to 1990, then became a book editor, poet and author. He wrote de lo que pudo haber sido..... (What Could Have Been, 1996), and the book Cuentos para leer junto al mar (Tales to be Read by the Sea), which won a Mexican national literary award in 1997.
Recently, Moya's successful recovery from cancer motivated him to re-examine his photographic archives, in storage for thirty years. Moya's documentary photographs from the 1950s and 60s have been published in a catalog titled Fuera de moda, and his first photographic monograph was recently published, Rodrigo Moya: Foto insurrecta (Ediciones Milagro, 2005). He lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The Wittliff Gallery is proud to include so far thirty-one of his original images.
SOURCE Rodrigo Moya: A Pending Subject by Adriana Malvido, Cuartoscuro (May/June 2002)
Fotógrafos de prensa / Press Photographers
Acolman, México
1961
Silver gelatin print
Rodrigo Moya
