Rodrigo Moya (photographer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Rodrigo Moya (photographer)

Mexican photojournalist

Date of Birth: 10-Apr-1934

Place of Birth: Medellín, Antioquia Department, Colombia

Profession: photographer

Nationality: Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Rodrigo Moya (born April 10, 1934) is a Mexican photojournalist, writer and publisher who is best known for his photographic work from 1955 to 1968.
Moya began his photojournalism career after apprenticing with Colombian photojournalist Guillermo Angulo, taking over Angulo’s job when he went to Italy to study cinema.
For the next thirteen years, Moya worked for various news magazines covering stories in Mexico and Latin America, especially social and political upheavals such as guerrilla fighters in Venezuela and Guatemala.
He also went in 1964 to Cuba to document the revolution there, and took a series of portraits of Che Guevara, including El Ché melancólico (Melancholy Che) one of two iconic images of Guevara.
In 1968, Moya decided he could no longer make a living in photography and worked until the end of the decade as a magazine publisher and short story writer, leaving a large archived packed away.
In the very late 1990s, a long illness forced him to move to open and reevaluate this archive and has since worked to promote these images.