Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ogarrio

Photographer, cultural manager, and researcher with thirty years of experience in Latin American photography. His work integrates artistic production, research, teaching, and curatorship, focusing on Mexican iconography, popular aesthetics, and experimental publishing processes. He has exhibited in Mexico and Brazil and participated in over fifty international group exhibitions. He is the co-founder of the publishing house Inside Remoto and co-director of MargenFest. Trained at the Escuela Activa de Fotografía, he holds a BA in History and an MA in Latin American Studies from UNAM, specializing in Art History. His notable publications include the photobooks Ixtlán (2019) and Nodos (2022). He was a finalist for the 2023 FELIFA Latin American Publication Prize and directed Geografías del Fotolibro, a research project on photobook publishers in Hispanoamerica. In 2025, he was a teacher and guest artist at the Experimental residency and a portfolio reviewer for the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover at the Arles Festival.