ENIAC MARTÍNEZ ULLOA

Halloween in Gilroy, California

Eniac Martínez Ulloa was born in Mexico City in 1959. He studied at the International Center of Photography, the National School of Visual Arts, and the Cuban Institute of Art. Martínez Ulloa has had solo exhibitions and collective exhibits throughout the world. His work has been published in Independent magazine, Daily Telegraph, National Geographic, México Indígena, Luna Córnea and La Jornada. In 2000, he worked with Francisco Mata Rosas on the book Litorales (Centro de la Imagen, 2000), which presented  photographs of Mexican beaches from every coast taken with a plastic panoramic camera. Martínez documented a group of Mixtec Indians who migrated to the United States from their home state of Oaxaca in search of work. For many Mixtecos, Spanish is a foreign language and thus they find themselves in between U.S. and Mexican cultures — English and Spanish — trying to survive and maintain their indigenous cultural identity. Martínez won a Fulbright award in 1989 for his work on the Mixtecos and the work was ultimately published in Mixtecos, Norte Sur (Mexico: Nuevos Códices, 1994); and won the 1991 Mother Jones Magazine documentary photography competition.  Martínez lives and works in Mexico City. The Wittliff Gallery collection includes thirty-nine of his photographs.

SOURCE Litorales by Eniac Martínez Ulloa (Centro de la Imagen, 2000) and Common Border www.cmp.ucr.edu/photography/borders
PHOTO by Eniac Martínez Ulloa