The Mexican Embassy in Portugal and the City Council of Loulé bring to CECAL – Center for Experimentation and Artistic Creation of Loulé, from June 28th to August 30th, the Photography Exhibition by the Mexican Marco António Cruz, “Habitar a Escuridão”, a photo essay on blindness in Mexico.
Composed of 50 black and white photographs taken between 1977 and 2005, this exhibition presents us with numerous cases of blindness, combining the testimony of the daily life of the blind in Mexico with the great social and artistic sensibility of one of the greatest documentary photographers in this country.
«Darkness inhabits itself, as one inhabits light. But on the side of light are the advantages and privileges: the clarity to take a long look at a beloved profile, the miracle of colors that combine and recombine, the glory of choosing: “I like green”.» (Julio Scherer Garcia)
The Exhibition was open to the public at the Centro Português de Fotografia, in Porto in the early months of this year and later at the headquarters of the Champalimaud Foundation.
Marco António Cruz was born to November 3, 1953, in Puebla, Mexico. He studied painting in his hometown and, early in his career, worked as an assistant to Héctor García, one of Mexico's most important documentary photographers.
Clearly under the influence of Nacho López's lens, but also because of his great social sensitivity, he portrayed images of Mexico City in the 1985 earthquake, paid tribute to the Torre Latinoamericana and produced a report on the last Pulquería in Colónia Roma. Guatemala and its coffee pickers, as well as photographs of life in China and Nicaragua, are also among its gallery.
Marco António Cruz's work is published in national and foreign newspapers and magazines. The journey, Process Magazine and LIFE were one of his main showcases for the work that since 1977 has kept his eye avid and attentive to any movement, of the face, action and light, but also of darkness.
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