Pablo Ortíz Monasterio

Pablo Ignacio Ortiz Monasterio Prieto is a Mexican photographer, writer and editor born in Mexico City in 1952. He is internationally recognized as one of the most representative artists of Mexican contemporary photography.

Early life and education Pablo Ortiz Monasterio was born in Mexico City in 1952 and is the fourth son of the plastic surgeon Fernando Ortiz Monasterio and Leonor Prieto. In his youth, his parents used to travel frequently and narrate their experiences to their children using transparencies. He says that the possibility of narrating experiences using images was something that marked him forever. He studied economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, but during the 1970s he moved to London and studied photography at the London College of Printing.

Career Ortiz Monasterio returned to Mexico at the beginning of the 1980s, and in 1982 he edited a book called "Los pueblos del viento" (1982).

In 2013, Ortiz Monasterio was one of the twenty artists selected to photograph some of Russia's most symbolic places. He decided to work at the Akadem Gorodok ("Academic City") in Novosibirsk, where he spent ten days photographing every single thing that constitute the laboratory constructed by the physician Gersh Budker which, until the 1990s, was the most important and advanced site in matters of nuclear energy. The photo-book contains 50 pictures, a literary text by José Manuel Prieto and a poem by Tito Lucrecio Caro. He also coordinated the book Frida Kahlo: sus fotos, directed the editorial projects Mexico indígena, Ríos de Luz, and Luna Córnea