Biography:
Born in Mexico in 1973. José Luis coursed post-graduate studies in Creative Visualization from Universidad de la Comunicación and the Document and Fiction Integral Program of Centro de la Imagen, among other workshops. His work has been exhibited in Mexico, Spain, France, Belgium and Germany. He was awarded the International Photojournalism Award Ciudad de Gijon in 2004 and the Special Jury Award of the same event in 2006; Special Mention of the New Journalism Cemex Award 2006 in Colombia; selected for the 12th Photography Biennale and the two last Photojournalism biennales (2005 and 2003); selected for the Joop Swart Masterclass Seminar of World Press Photo (2004 and 2005); Resident of the Lumen Association and Centro de la Imagen in Orleans, France; resident in Centro de las Artes de San Agustín, Oaxaca, with Cristina García Rodero and Graciela Iturbide as tutors, 2006.
Statement:
State of Time
This series is about the existential unrest of an urban society, depicting situations and characters that, between metaphor and sarcasm, reflect a chaotic state where the main actor is the common citizen, a being immerse in a general mood, in a collective crisis that is only perceived as something that is wrong. Its discourse is not about a specific city, it is an intent to reflect the state of affairs in cities in general, about the ambience of what we refer to as a "city". The situations and characters are presented as an echo of a global decadence that affects our destiny. Nearing winds that we learn about as if in a weather report from a news broadcast. |
