Adolfo Pérez-Butrón

Mexico City, 1956

Adolfo Pérez-Butrón graduated as an Electronics Engineer from the UAM Iztapalapa. He worked in the Computing area of ​​the National Industrial Development Laboratories, LANFI in CDMX and taught computer classes at the Anahuac University.
Parallel to his university studies, his love for photography led him to set up his first home laboratory for developing and printing in black and white. At that time and by chance, Manuel Álvarez Bravo Jr. saw some of his images and proposed to include them in an exhibition he was organizing for the Palacio de Bellas Artes.

Alejandro Parodi (photographer) would make the prints for the exhibition and it was at his suggestion that in 1984, he enrolled in the Free Photography Workshops of the CUEC of the UNAM under the direction of Jesús Sanchez Uribe.
The talks and seminars given by Doña Lola Álvarez Bravo, Jesus Sanchez Uribe himself, Gabriel Figueroa Jr., Nacho Lopez, etc., together with the courses, strengthened his true vocation. Due to an approach with the Mexican Council of Photography, he began to participate in several exhibitions and one of his images was selected for the commemorative collection of 150 years of photography in Mexico with a copy in the National Library of Paris.

At the end of the eighties, he collaborated with various fashion publications, including Vogue México magazine, and received the Omni Award from the Pro-México Fashion Board as best fashion photographer for three consecutive years. Parallel to his editorial work, he began to get involved in recording and advertising projects with artists, singers and intellectuals.

By 1992 he began to collaborate with Viceversa magazine where he had the opportunity to see his most personal proposals published with a very good reception from the public and critics. From one of them:  ̈Safe sex manual ̈, the series arises: ̈Cuerpos distantas, deseos indetenibles ̈, with which he participated in the VII Photography Biennial of 1995, obtaining the jury prize as well as the public prizes, both in CDMX. as in the city of Oaxaca. As an editorial photographer, he has traveled to the United States, Europe and Latin America to photograph among other personalities: Phill Collins, Madonna, Christopher Lambert, Gloria Estefan, Julio Iglesias, among others.

Since the end of the nineties and for more than ten years he worked in parallel between CDMX and Miami Beach for major record labels such as Sony Music, BMG, EMI Music, etc. His work with artists, singers and intellectuals make up one of the largest contemporary portrait portfolios in Mexico in recent times. He has participated in more than thirty collectives in the main museums of the country (Fine Arts, Museum of Modern Art, CDMX Museum) along with several individual exhibitions in Mexico and abroad (the most recent in The National Gallery, Bangkok). To date, he has published two books with personal work: “Invocaciones”, from 2011 (Silver Award from the Sappi Printers of the Year, 2012) and Chamucos Carnaval de San Martín Tilcajete from 2014. Included in the volume: 160 years of Photography in Mexico , Oceano 2004.

Los Revolucionarios by Adolfo Perez Butrón, author of the most iconic Mexican fashion editorials and portraits of the ultimate national celebrities, challenge conceptions of race, identity and gender with an artistic freedom always to be defended. His staged photography —pioneering in Latin America in style and content— reminds us of the repression of disciplinary society against all that is diverse. The work that was originally exhibited at the Museum of Mexico City for the exhibition La redada de los 41 (2001), has not lost its scandalous quality.