Portraiture is one of the photographic genres that Rodrigo Moya is passionate about. Throughout his fruitful career as a photojournalist, editor, writer and artist, Rodrigo Moya has portrayed friends and acquaintances who in addition to having been important figures in the cultural and artistic life of Mexico and Latin America, have been immortalized for posterity through his lens. In some cases they were published in print media and now several of them are in his books. But in parallel to the interest aroused in him by famous characters, Moya also portrayed "anonymous" people, with whom his gaze met fleetingly. Both types of portraits show the psychological depth, the unique and timely look of one of the master photographers of our country. Whether it's the iconic image of Gabriel García Márquez with a blow to the eye, the portrait of Che or the portrait of a girl whose name we do not know, we can identify ourselves and feel the emotion in front of those faces. This book contemplates the selection of at least 120 portraits taken throughout his life, of famous and anonymous characters, as well as several texts that Moya has written around the photographic portrait and his experience as a photographer deciphering the other behind the lens.
Portraiture is one of the photographic genres that Rodrigo Moya is passionate about. Throughout his fruitful career as a photojournalist, editor, writer and artist, Rodrigo Moya has portrayed friends and acquaintances who in addition to having been important figures in the cultural and artistic life of Mexico and Latin America, have been immortalized for posterity through his lens. In some cases they were published in print media and now several of them are in his books. But in parallel to the interest aroused in him by famous characters, Moya also portrayed "anonymous" people, with whom his gaze met fleetingly. Both types of portraits show the psychological depth, the unique and timely look of one of the master photographers of our country. Whether it's the iconic image of Gabriel García Márquez with a blow to the eye, the portrait of Che or the portrait of a girl whose name we do not know, we can identify ourselves and feel the emotion in front of those faces. This book contemplates the selection of at least 120 portraits taken throughout his life, of famous and anonymous characters, as well as several texts that Moya has written around the photographic portrait and his experience as a photographer deciphering the other behind the lens.
