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He was born on November 3, 1956 in Mexico City. He studied cinematography at the Center of Cinematographic Studies of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and he gets an undergraduate degree in Artistic Teaching in Plastic Arts by the National Institute of Fine Arts. In the early 80s he founded, together with Lourdes Almeida and Gerardo Suter, the workshop Taller de la Luz, a space for experimentation that went outside the line from documentary photography. As of 1998 he went across the country, as an ancient explorer, taking photographs of the pre-Hispanic architecture; that way, he has an extensive catalogue, printed in several techniques, which has travelled around the world in several exhibitions. From 2001 to this day, he has developed the project Estaciones, a registration of protected areas in Latin America; at the same time he experiments with several printing techniques and includes in his work alternative languages like video and installation. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries of Latin America, United States, Asia, Africa and Oceania. His work is part of collections like the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC), Fundación Televisa and the Museum of Pre-Columbian and Indigenous Art of Montevideo. He is the author of numerous books and has produced several artista books in limited editions like: Fata morgana, Lunas del desierto, Calakmul y Celestún (honorary mention at the International Artist Book Fair. Image Center, 2011), all of them as part of a series Cuadernos del insomio. His work has been exhibited in more than 40 collective exhibitions in Mexico and abroad and has individually put together the following exhibitions: EDINBA, CDMX (1981). Alternative Gallery (1985). Del Cielo y en La Tierra, Gallery of Andrés Siegel, CDMX (1996). Silencios Compartidos, Soumaya Museum, CDMX (1998-1999). Guardianes del Tiempo, Hacienda Temozón, Yucatán. (1999). Guardianes del Tiempo, Sebastián International Gallery of Art, Cancún. (1999). Guardianes del Tiempo, Gallery Zepter, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. (2000). Guardianes del Tiempo, Embassy of Mexico in Iran, Teheran, Iran. (2000). Del Cielo y en la Tierra, National Newspaper Library, UNAM. CDMX (2000). Mayas: Espacios de la Memoria, Image Center, CDMX (2001). His images have illustrated more than 80 publications like books and catalogues of art and Mexican culture, both in Mexico and abroad. In 1998, he published the book Silencios Compartidos, Edited by the Soumaya Museum, CDMX and in the year 2000, the book Mayas: Espacios de la Memoria, Edited by Lindero editions, CDMX. Mr. Hinojosa has been granted with the following prices and distinctions: Honorary Mention at the First Photography Biennial, INBA (1980); First Price at the Third Contest of Anthropological Photography, INAH (1983); Price to Acquisition at the Third Biennial of Photography, INBA (1984); FONCA support to the project Nuevas Ideas, Viejos Procesos (1996); FONCA support to the project Mayas: Espacios de la Memoria (2000); Honorary Mention at the contest Body and Fruit IFAL and Embassy of France (2000). In 2017 he received the medal to photographic merit granted by the National Institute of Anthropology and History.