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Carlos Álvarez-Montero (Mexico City, 1974)

MFA in Photography, Video & Related Media at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Degree in Communication Sciences from the University of the Valley of Mexico. Selected in the 8th (1997) and 12th (2008) Mexico’s Centro de la Imagen Photography Biennial. He was awarded with the Fulbright-García Robles Scholarship (2007-2009), the Foreign Studies Support program, Fonca (2007-2009) and the Jumex Foundation/Collection Scholarship from 2007 to 2009, he was also a fellow of the Aaron Siskind Scholarship awarded by the School of Visual Arts (2007-2008) and the Alice Beck Odette Scholarship (2009). His work has been exhibited individually and collectively in Mexico, the United States, Italy, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Spain and France.

In the editorial field, he co-founded and was the photo editor for PICNIC magazine from 2003 to 2006. He has published in magazines such as Vice, Jan O, City Pictorial Magazine (China), Private (France), Esquire (Mexico and Ukraine), Blink (Korea), and Financial Tiimes (United Kingdom), among others, his work appears in the book 150 years of photography in Mexico, edited by INBA. In 2011 he founded 357MX, a platform specialized in the education, production and dissemination of the photographic medium in Mexico City. Among his most outstanding works are: M de Michoacán (2008), Covers, Adopt & Adapt (2009), Racial Profiling (2009), Our Lady of the Bronx (2010), Scars (2011) The Warrior State (2013), In Self Defense (2015), Vanitas Tepito (2018), and Not dead… yet (2020). Between 2015 and 2017 he co-directed SIN PERDER DE VISTA a series of artist talks about photography with photographer Mark Powell and the curator and artist Alfredo Esparza. Currently he is Co-Director of OJO, a visual production studio and photographer representation agency,.  

He lives and works in Mexico City.