ABOUT

 

Just a few words about me

 

I'm Manuel Gerez. I was born in Mexico City in early 1970's. I studied in Colegio Madrid, a school founded by Spanish republicans war-exiled. In this early years I began to get knowledge about many ideas as freedom, self-conscious, criticism, social-conscious, and others in this liberal thought, and --of course-- a deep sensibility about our amazing world. 

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I studied History in National Autonomous University of Mexico, but always with the certainly think that I had have to study Archaeology. So, I decided to learn more about Pre-Columbian cultures in actual territories of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, principally Mayan Civilization.

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My interest in Social Sciences (I did my Master Degree in Sociocultural Studies) bring me a great opportunity to expand my knowledge and admiration for Mexican and Latin-American Ethnic-groups and their extraordinary cultures, and learn about their cosmologies, their pains and miseries, and their happiness and enormous sense of life.

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Those interests were confirmed when I studied another Master Degree in Anthropology at Autonomous University of Barcelona. At this time the culture diversity had another aspect to me by pointing my interests in immigrants for many countries from America, Asia, and Europe. But I decided try to explore another topics, so I decided to study agriculture rituals among the Maya of Yucatan, México. The fieldwork experience in this area was amazing.

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I found that one of the best approach to learn and to share these experiences about Human cultural diversity is throughout photography. Thereby, I could link disciplines as Anthropology, Social Science, and Art in an exercise that brought me onto Documentary Photography.

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Of course, I do not pretend to be a professional photographer. I just enjoy this way to express the enormous Human diversity. I really hope I had reached to capture our plural and diversity societies, and you can enjoy it through my work.