Marco Antonio Cruz: Selector's Statement
Marco Antonio Cruz has justly earned a prominent place in Mexican photojournalism. Current image editor of the lead independent magazine published in Mexico, and a photographer well acquainted with the urgencies of the daily press but who also authors long-range projects – Cruz understands documentary photography as the exercise of a point of view that is ethically and politically engaged, yet aspires to an aesthetic clarity. Witness to routines, events and neglects in a country marked by social injustice, Cruz has shaped a visual memory that reveals the complexities of the time in Mexico, while expanding the boundaries of our understanding of human dignity.
To choose Marco Antonio Cruz as winner of The Grange Prize is to vindicate and support a point of view that has refused to take part in superficiality and indiference – one that wants to continue being a link between us and others.
