Shoemaker Stanley

Stanley Shoemaker, a Mexican photographer class 1979, his artistic background comes from the school of Mexican photography “Fabrica de imágenes”, it then matured and increased through his participation in various seminars and workshops on contemporary photography. In the last recent years, Shoemaker has obtained several awards, including the one received at the International Biennial of Contemporary Photography - Ecuador. His photographs have been published in magazines, they have been exhibited in several group and solo exhibitions arranged in several countries, including England, United States, Mexico and Argentina. 

Stanley Shoemaker starts a reflection on the role of the media of photography in contemporary times, he relegates to it an important role in the cultural development of today's bicultural society, an awareness that art history reminds us, it has been in the past in the center of a phenomenon that brought some sixties' artists on the way of pop art. Shoemaker’s images are not only the result of a deep thought on the role of the photographic medium, but also, and especially, on the way this performs its purpose . The digital age has made even more explicit the effective control that man has always had on this medium, a control that commonly, and erroneously, was believed to not have when using analog medium. This appears to be the first target of Shoemaker, to unveil a reality and a world of images fully under the control of man, in which the perception, for this photographer, becomes a new channel through which to communicate.