Biography:
Eniac Martínez was born in Mexico City in 1959. He started his artistic formation in 1980 at the Institute of Art in Habana, Cuba and continued at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas at the UNAM in Mexico City from 1982 to 1985. He also studied at the International Center of Photography in New York in 1987.
He has exhibited individually 35 times and has participated in more than 50 collective national and international exhibitions.
Between 1988 and 2000 he has been distinguished with the following prizes: Second place at the VII Contest of Anthropological Photography. First prize at the V Biennial of Photography of the National Institute of Fine Arts in México. Grant for the Golden Light Awards at the Maine Photographic Workshops at the United States. Fullbright Scholarship, First Prize at the First Annual Award from the Mother Jones International Foundation for Documentary Photography. Grant for Young Artists by the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes. He is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte since 2000.
He is the author of the books ¨Mixtecos¨,¨Litorales¨ and the ¨Camino Real de Tierra Adentro¨.
Statement:
El Camino Real began as faint footpaths carved by native traders as they exchanged goods between north and south. Spanish explorers etched it deeper during their expeditions northward to claim land and riches for the King of Spain. Thousands of migrants, miners, missionaries, and merchants followed over the next 500 years. The trail that began as a scratch in the earth is now a bustling highway with cars zipping by and planes flying overhead.
My purpose has been to make a photographic essay that shows the present conditions of the main points of interest of the Camino Real, its inevitable transformation and those elements which have significance to its contemporary inhabitants. What is it that remains of the cultures that walked through this trail? What remains of any of these cultures at the different points that they built? How the landscape and the people have changed? Where will this trail lead us in the XXI century? |
From the series:
El Camino Real |
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San Martín
de los Terreros,
Guanajuato, Mexico. |
Golondrinas Camp,
Nuevo Mexico. |
Plateros, Zacatecas,
Mexico. |
Queretaro City,
Mexico. |
Mesillas, Aguascalientes,
Mexico. |
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Charco Cercado, San Luis Potosí,
Mexico. |
Mesilla, Nuevo Mexico. |
Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua,
Mexico. |
Chihuahua City,
Mexico. |
Salinas, San Luis Potosí,
Mexico. |
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