Yael Martínez

Martínez’s work has explored the connections between, poverty, narco traffic, organized crime, and how this affects the communities in his native Guerrero in southern Mexico. He is trying to represent the relationship of absence and presence and this state of invisibility in a symbolic manner working with the concepts of pain, emptiness, absence, and forgetting.

Martínez is based in Guerrero, Mexico. He was Granted by the Magnum Foundation, by the Fonca of México, and is a winner of a WorldPressPhoto. He was also finalist in many documentary photography awards. He received the Magnum Emergency Fund, Magnum On religion, and was named one of the PDN´s 30 new and emerging photographers to watch in 2017. In 2015 he was selected in the Joop Joop Swart Master Class Latinoamerica. Martínez was a finalist in the Eugene Smith Grant in 2015, 2016. Martinez was also nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award, the Prix Pictet, and the Infinity Award of the ICP.