Mexico City, Mexico, 1942

Lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico

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Is one of the most important photographers in Mexico and Latin America. Over a career spanning more than five decades, she has amassed a vast collection of iconic images, but the common ground in which these statements place her work is extraordinary in each of her works. Her hallmark is the black and white analog print, the result of a process where time and symbols are transformed into what Olivier Debroise called a “poetics of patience.”
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Recognized primarily for photographs such as Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas (Juchitán, 1979) or Mujer Ángel (Sonora, 1979), her lens has transitioned to capturing people, spaces, and moments immersed in different realities. From the works she carried out in the Sonoran Desert for the National Indigenous Institute and in Juchitán at the invitation of Francisco Toledo (Juchitán, 1940–Oaxaca, 2019), where she masterfully captured the Seri and Juchiteca cultures, she moved on to portraying the symbols of death, life, and nature. Thus, her work oscillates between personal documentation and the plasticity of forms.