Moya, Rodrigo

A Mexican photographer born in Medellín, Colombia, in 1931. He worked as a photojournalist from 1955 to 1968, during which he published over a hundred photo reports, numerous reviews, and photographic illustrations, particularly in weekly magazines such as Impacto, Sucesos, Política, and ¡Siempre! He traveled to Panama, Guatemala, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic, and in 1964, he visited Cuba, where he captured a close-up sequence of Che Guevara. In 1965, he was the only Latin American photographer to cover the American invasion of the Dominican Republic, and the following year, he documented guerrilla activities of the FALN (Armed National Liberation Front) in Guatemala and Venezuela. In 1968, he founded the specialized magazine Técnica Pesquera, which he directed and edited monthly for twenty-two years. During this time, he addressed all aspects of fishing and the seas of Mexico through his writing and photography, while also documenting humanistic and historical subjects, which are strongly present in his photographic corpus. Since 2002, numerous books and catalogs have been published about his work. He participates in colloquia and conferences on photography and has presented multiple solo and group exhibitions in Mexico, the United States, and Europe, where his work is extensively represented in private collections and museums. In recent years, his work has been cited in important surveys and analyses of Mexican documentary photography. Since 1998, he has been living in the city of Cuernavaca.