Mauricio Flores Guarneros

Born in Mexico City, Mauricio completed his photography training at the Escuela Activa de Fotografia in 1996. In the following year a short-term course with photographer Charles Harbut of Magnum agency complemented his visual education. Since then he has developed a variety of historical, documentary, commercial, social, architectural, and artistic photography projects.

In 1999 he enrolled in the visual arts program at the Ottawa School of Art where he was awarded two scholarships. After completing his art studies there he was awarded a research fellowship by the National Gallery of Canada to develop a digital procedure that serves conservators today in photo-documenting their restoration treatments. He has also juried exhibitions and participated in numerous photography shows as well as presented several alternative photography projects locally and abroad. He is presently working to develop an ecological alternative to the traditional B&W photo darkroom.

His work has been published in specialized magazines, exhibit halls, catalogues, and presented in several galleries including the Soumaya Museum in Mexico City, the Cultural Centre of the National University Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico and Canada, and in the Centro de Arte in the city of Holguin, Cuba. He has been teaching photography and delivering photography lectures and workshops since 1997 in Mexico, Cuba and Canada.

His work is geared around the research and practice of historical, traditional, digital and specialized photographic processes.