(Taken from Manuel Bayo Gisbert's website) b. 1997, Mexico City. My work focuses on the politics of personal stories and how those stories relates to the bigger history of my country. Both my photographs and my writing have been published in The New York Times. In 2022 I received the Jan Mulder Scholarship, a full scholarship to attend the International Center of Photography’s (ICP) One-Year Certificate Program in Photojournalism, from which I graduated in 2023. I studied a bachelor’s in film directing at Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (Mexico) and was part of the 2021 class of Centro de la Imagen’s Seminario de Producción Fotográfica. I was a finalist of the Counter Histories initiative at the Magnum Foundation. I have taken part in activities and exhibitions with the VII Academy, Festival Internacional de Fotografía en Valparaíso (FIFV), Kranj Foto Festival and Sphere Festival. I have been a student of artists such as Antoine D’Agata, Sohrab Hura, Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb, Sabiha Çimen, Joan Fontcuberta, Laida Lertxundi, Lynne Sachs, Stefan Kaegi, Clifford Owens, Felipe Cazals and Alonso Ruizpalacios. I have given self-documentation workshops to young people in both the United States and Mexico; the results of these workshops have been exhibited as collaborative pieces. Besides my work in photography, I have also done short films, performance, installations and music videos. My short films have been exhibited at Mexico’s Cineteca Nacional and other venues in the United Sates, South Korea and Russia. In 2020, I curated a large retrospective of the works of R. Bruce Elder at Cineteca Nacional and Mexico’s Institut Français d’Amérique latine (IFAL). I am a member of the Brigada Nacional de Búsqueda de Personas Desaparecidas (National Brigade of Search of Missing People) and am currently pre-producing my first feature-length documentary film.
