Biography:
Born in Mexico City in 1974. He dropped out of Graphic Design to pursue his true passion, photojournalism. He began his career in the photographic agency "Cuartoscuro", directed by Pedro Valtierra. Later on, he worked for the Reforma and El Dia Newspapers, and also as photographer and cameraman for Televisa. For three years, he was the photographer of the Hipódromo de las Américas racetrack, after that, he worked in the Excelsior Newspaper and in 2007 he was awarded the silver medal for best Documentary Photography of News Design, an international organization of Newspaper Design.
He has published both illustrations and photos in nation-wide coverage media, such as La Jornada, Reforma, La Crónica, Revista DF. Replicante, Fahrenheit, Complot, Expansión, and also in the Dallas Morning News, the art magazine "MAPALE" of Toronto and the czech magazine "UMELEC" in its edition dedicated to the contemporary mexican art.
He is co-founder of the Photographic Company Ojo Rojo which supplies graphic materials and designs, video and editing, to companies such as Wal-Mart, CIE, OCESA and The Communications Council of Mexico, among others.
Ernesto is currently making documentary photography for several Institutions devoted to child nutrition in rural and extreme poverty areas, such as the high Sierras of Guerrero, and foundations such as the Mexican Kidney Foundation and the National Kidney Foundation.
Statement:
The ten photographs that appear in this show are of different moments of Mexico City, the daily happenings in a city of over 20 million inhabitants, its syncretism, its humorous
moments, its people. As poet Jaime Sabines said: "I wish to sing someday of the immense poverty of our life, this nostalgia of the simple things, this sumptuous trip that we have undertaken towards tomorrow without having loved our yesterday enough".
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