Ernesto J. Torres, An Artist Under Continuous Processes
He is born in Mexico City in 1957 and studies Advertising Photography in one of the most prestigious institutions in the field: Brooks Institute of Photography, in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, where he graduates in 1982.
He establishes his own Studio in Mexico City in 1983 and commits professionally to advertising free-lance photography for over 27 years.
His versatile portfolio includes photography for hotel and restaurant chains, pharmaceutical laboratories, books and magazines; from jewelry to buses, from medical boxes to fashion and lingerie, from simple close-ups to aerial photography.
His clientele includes everything from well-known corporations as Tupperware and Abbot, to starting micro-companies in need of high quality photography.
His work is highly regarded in Mexico’s marketing world as attested by the inclusion of his profile and a selection of his photographs in the book Grandes fotógrafos publicitarios de México (Great Marketing Photographers of Mexico, Kodak Mexicana, 1997).
For years he shares his passion for photography through scholarly work, lecturing and teaching in prestigious academic institutions such as the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the University of the Americas in Cholula, Puebla, Kodak Mexicana’s Training Center,Simón Bolívar University, and Mexico’s Professional Photographers Association.
Additionally, for twelve years he performs as tenure professor of Photography at La Salle University’s “Mexican School of Architecture, Design and Communications”. In 2002, he shows part of his work in the photographic exhibition “Los Maestros y la Lente” in the University’s Library.
In 2011 he decides to finally dedicate himself to full time Art Photography, and moves to Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, in the Mexican Pacific, to start a new life cycle. In September 2012 he exhibits in Puerto Escondido the product of his previous year’s work at Galería Diana and in the exhibition “El Túnel XV años”, in Mexico City.
Subsequently, the work is shown in Huatulco, Oaxaca, in early 2013. During this year he also exhibits as a guest at La Salle University’s “Express Yourself” exhibition, and he is invited to participate in the show “Skin, Sensitivity and Sensations” at El Tunel, in Mexico City. In October he is selected to represent Mexico in the First Ibero-American Biennial of Photography in Iran in the Parliament of the Islamic Republic of Iran. On November 9 he opens Casa12, a gallery-cultural space in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, to contribute to make art more accessible to the community. Later, the participating Latin American countries in the First Ibero-American Biennial are invited to by the National Library of Iran (which runs 24 hours and has 130 thousand subscribers) to present the "First Joint Biennial Exhibit of Iran and Latin American Photography" displayed in December.
In January 14, 2014 he exhibits in the main gallery of the “Art Zone of Isfahan”, the Naqsh Khaneh, and from February 7, 2014, one of his photographs becomes part of the permanent collection of the most important cultural center of the most important cultural city of Iran: Isfahan. A new exhibit is shown in Tokio, Japan in July at the El Espacio Mexicano of the Mexican Embassy with the show “From… Puerto, Encounters and Disencounters with Oaxaca”. In August 22, he gathers Puerto Escondido’s artists to show their work at the inauguration of the “Cultural Center of Arts and Trades” of the Municipal Market of this city, and of which he is a co-founder. His work is shown again on September 14 in Casa12 with the show “Ernesto… Natura, stripping nature”.
In January and April 2015 he shows and organizes two collective exhibitions at Casa12 and in September he coordinates the anniversary show at the “Cultural Center of Arts and Trades” of the Municipal Market in Puerto.
Now, various photographic series are continuously created and enlarged as he searches daily to share a bit of the beauty and reality of this world.