Biography:

Photoreporter for more than 13 years, Lizeth has worked for several media with Mexican and Latin American coverage. She has been awarded twice the grant of the Program of the National Fund for the Culture and the Arts, FONCA: Young Creators 2004-2005 and Cultural Promotion to Projects and Co-investments 2005-2006. Both sponsorships were for developing the photographic project “To look upwards”.

She has participated in 35 collective and 2 individual exhibitions: "Olor a viento" in 1995 and "Europa: Reflejos inhabitados" in 2002. She has obtained Prizes such as: 1st prize in individual photography, "Politics" category in 3rd. Biennial of Photo-journalism 1999; 1st prize in digital photography of the 22nd Contest of Anthropological Photography 2002; Honorable Mention in the contest “Prize of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation for Mexican Journalists 2002, National Prize of Cultural Journalism "Fernando Benítez” of the 2005 International Book Fair in photographic essay; participant of the first Artistic Residence of the Center of the Arts of San Agustín, Oaxaca, imparted by Graciela Iturbide and Cristina Garcia Rodero, in February of 2006. Pre-selected for the World Press Photo Joop Swart Master-class 2006; selected by the New Latin American Journalism Foundation for the Marginality and Poverty Journalism Workshop, imparted by Stefen Ferry in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. June, 2006; Honorable Mention in the 13th. Latin American Documentary Photography Contest "The works and the days", Colombia 2007.

Statement:

Looking upwards
It is not the same to look downwards than upwards. Be different sometimes determines the relationship with the environment, and the way to conceive it, it represents the constant struggle to obtain a space, a place.
"To look upwards" speaks of the life of a group of dwarf men and women, who work as bullfighters, wrestlers, clowns and dancers, who fight with grace and the necessity to be recognized.
To understand the sense of "otherness" and the respect to the different identities, with the recognition to the effort for adaptation to environments organized and thought for people of higher stature.