Sergio Dorantes

Sergio Dorantes Zurita (born 1946) is a Mexican photojournalist.

In his 24-year career, Dorantes' photos appeared in scores of major US and European periodicals, [cite news
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url = http://www.contralinea.com.mx/archivo/2006/febrero2/htm/sergio_dorantes.htm
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location = Mexico City
date = 2006-02
language = Spanish ] among them: newspapers such as the "New York Times" [cite news
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last = Weiner
title = Mexico City Journal: Pummeling the Powerful, With Comedy as Cudgel
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id = ISSN|0362-4331
date = 2001-06-15 ] ; "Washington Post; Los Angeles Times"; [cite news
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work = Los Angeles Times
id = ISSN|0458-3035
date = 2002-09-17 ] "Sunday Times, Independent, and Sunday Telegraph" (London); the "Chicago Tribune"; "El País" (Madrid); and magazines including "Newsweek, Time, Forbes, Fortune, BusinessWeek, GEO, Elle", and "Paris Match".

Born in the outskirts of Mexico City to an indigenous family, as a young man Dorantes emigrated to Europe where he studied industrial design. While working as an auto mechanic for Formula One racing, he discovered photography. [cite news
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date = 2000-02 ] He began his career as a "paparazzo", and then as a photojournalist for various news and entertainment publications based in London. After living there for 17 years, he returned to Mexico City where he continued to work for an array of international publications. [cite news
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last = Carlin
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work = El País
location = Madrid
date = 2005-12-04
language = Spanish ]

Over the course of his career, Dorantes has covered five Mexican presidential elections. Many of his photos of presidents of Mexico have appeared on the cover of magazines such as "Newsweek, BusinessWeek", and "Forbes," and the front page of the "New York Times". [cite news
title = Mexico: Will It Vote for Change?
url = http://www.businessweek.com/datedtoc/2000/0027t.htm
work = BusinessWeek
id = ISSN|0007-7135
date = 2000-07-03 ] Dorantes is the only Mexican photographer to garner assignments worldwide with major international publications. [cite news
title = Murders put justice on trial in Mexico
url = http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto041920071624422752&page=2
work = Financial Times
location = London
id = ISSN|0307-1766
date = 2007-04-19 ] Dorantes has undertaken important photographic projects such as the documentation of Native Americans in the United States, [cite web
url = http://encarta.msn.com/media_461538445/Crow_Ceremony.html
title = Crow Ceremony
author = Sergio Dorantes
work = Encarta
publisher = Microsoft Corporation ] the Tarahumara people of northern Mexico, the Zapatista uprising in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, a long-term project on the Mexican elections from 1982 onwards, [cite book
last = Domínguez
first = Jorge I.
coauthors = Alejandro Poiré
others = cover photo by Sergio Dorantes
title = Toward Mexico's Democratization: Parties, Campaigns, Elections, and Public Opinion
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=VkR0Rqnk2HUC&printsec=frontcover
date = 1999
publisher = Routledge
location = New York City
isbn = 978-0-415-92158-9 ] deforestation in Central America, women in Islam both in Indonesiacite news
author = AGZ
title = Sergio Dorantes, fotoperiodista mexicano expone su obra en la UIA
url = http://www.uia.mx/actividades/nuestracom/99/nc40/4.html#1
work = Nuestra Comunidad
publisher = Universidad Iberoamericana
location = Mexico City
page = 4
date = 1999-08-16
language = Spanish ] and Malaysia, [cite news
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last = Hocine Benkheira
title = The Milk Family
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location = Italy
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language = English ] and the effect of modern technology on the livelihood of the traditional weavers of Lake Toba, Sumatra.

Exhibits

* Asahi Pentax Gallery, London, England, one-man show. Photographer from the third world, 1980.
* Half a Penny Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, one-man show. Vision of a Red Indian, 1981.
* Biennial of Photography, Mexico City, Mexico. Collective, 1991.
* Mexican Museum of Arts, Chicago, Illinois. Día de Los Muertos: Where Past & Present Meet, 1996. [cite web
url = http://www.nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/pages/exh_past.html
title = Past Exhibitions
publisher = National Museum of Mexican Art ]
* University of Mexico City, CETIS, Mexico City, Mexico. Views from the World, 1999.
* Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico, one-man show. Pictures and Covers of World Events, 2000.

References

External links

* http://www.sergiodorantes.com/