Joel Salcido Ruiz, photographer

Joel Salcido grew up in Mexico and the United States.  As a staff photographer for the El Paso Times he documented the Tarahumara Indians and covered the 1985 earthquake in Mexico.  He also traveled extensively in Latin America for USA Today.  His photographs appear in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the El Paso Museum of Art, the University of Texas Harry Ransom Humanities Center, and the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University.

Additional acquisitions have been by the Federal Reserve Bank, the University of Texas at San Antonio, and the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing.  The photograph Atotonilco el Alto, from his Aliento A Tequila series and book was recently added to Mexico’s National Art Heritage Series.  Salcido lives in San Antonio.