Mexican Graphic Designer, Artist, illustrator, and profesional photographer, who worked 15 years in various newspapers and magazines as a press Photographer, winning various prices, such as the Silver Medal of the society of News Design in 2007, and his photos were mention as part of the best Photojournalism in Latinamerica, by the U.K. Newspaper, “The Guardian” in 2015 for his most known photo “Zocalo Surf”
https://www.ernestomuniz.com/zocalo-surf
During a period of personal crisis, he changes his camera, for paper, scisssors, and glue, and start making collage as a form of therapy. At first, pasting his work on the streets, images of saints and virgins, which he transformed into gunfighters, Assassins, magicians, etc, which is known as “Guerrilla Shrines” that began gaining some interest in the popular culture of his native Mexico city, and then invited by galleries for exhibitionns of his collages .
His work is a complex unión of hundreds of papers found in magazines, books, posters, an mainly everywhere, that in a patience and precise way, construct his inner worlds that are born from his outer world, in a style that has been consider “Barroque pop collage”.