Francisco Mata Rosas

FRANCISCO MATA ROSAS

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 US. He has received numerous honors including the 1988 Prize of Acquisition at the Biennial of Mexican photography, Prize of Honor at 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), featured panoramic images taken on the seashores (“litorales”) of Mexico with a plastic camera, an Ansco Pix Panorama. The book also includes images by Eniac Martínez Ulloa. 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. His monumental work on Mexico City comes out this year. Rosas lives and works in Mexico City. The Wittliff Gallery collection is proud to own thirty-one of his prints so far.

SOURCE Sábado de Gloria by Francisco Mata Rosas (Grupo Deseo, 1994) and Mexico 1920 - 1992 (Exhibitions International, 1992) and Toy Camera website, www.toycamera.com
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