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My interest in visual arts began when I was a child. As the daughter of two fine artists, I became fascinated with the visual world. At 15, I bought my first camera and started photographing architecture. In 1985, I was granted my first photo assignment to photograph artists and their artwork. I attended the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), to study Architecture, where I got fascinated by the light, shadows and lines that define Architecture. I developed the patience of waiting for the right moment to capture where the light designs a new space. Two years later, I moved to Los Angeles, California where I attended art classes, at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). I kept moving north on the west coast until I reached the Bay Area. In 1990 I participated in my first group exhibit. In 1991 attended College of Marin, in Kentfield, where I was appointed by Professor Polly Stainmetz, as photography teacher assistant. In April of 1992, I received my first photography award at the College of Marin Student Art Exhibit (Gallery Award) and in August, I won the Los Angeles County Fair First Photography Juried Exhibition. That same year I traveled, for the second time, to Europe working on my photography. In March of 1993, I had my first One Woman Show at Stanford University, in California and that same year, I received an Honorable Mention at the Mill Valley Photography Competition, as part of the May National Photo Month. In August, I received for the second time, an award at the Los Angeles County Fair Second Photography Juried Exhibition. In 1994, had a One Woman exhibit at Fairline Gallery, in California, and won two awards at the Los Angeles County Fair Third Photography Juried Exhibition. During 1995 and 1996, I kept traveling around Europe, Indonesia, Pakistan, Singapore, USA and Mexico, dedicated only to my photography. In 1996, I received a Grant from the US-Mexico Fund for Culture (Rockefeller Foundation, Fundación Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes and Fundación Cultural Bancomer), to develop my project titled The Franciscan Missions of Fray Junípero Serra, a series of photographs of the missions founded by Father Serra in Sierra Gorda, Queretaro, Mexico, and along the state of California, with a bilingual text, also written by me. The project is finished and to be published. In 1999, I contributed as a writer and Photo Editor for Aiming High Magazine, and was asked by the film maker Jorge Aguilera, to do the Still Photography for his movie Seres Humanos. In 2000, I was invited to be part of an engagement book titled Women Photographers Throughout Time. I have had my work published in various books and magazines, as well as having my work reviewed by writers and critics. In June of 2000, I moved to Madrid, Spain, where I attended a special photography course, at the EFTI, (Escuela de Fotografía - Casa de Imágen), and stayed for three more months traveling throughout Spain and Portugal, working on my own photography projects. In October, I was invited by the State of Tamaulipas, to participate in the Festival Internacional Tamaulipas 2000, with an Art Photo Exhibit, in Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico In 2001, I started working on my second movie Zurdo by Carlos Salces, and the short film From Mesmer with love directed by Salvador Aguirre and Alejandro Lubezki, with the Cinematography by Emmanuel "Chivo" Lubezki. Through out the years as a professional photographer, I've been working in various assignments for Publishing Houses (art books and magazines), Movie Directors, Advertising Companies, and Music Producers, without leaving my own art projects and my writing and have been invited to participate in various exhibits in Mexico, Europe and the USA.
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