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Rodrigo Moya (b. April 10, 1934)〔 〕〔 〕 is a Colombian photojournalist, writer and publisher who is best known for his photographic work from 1955 to 1968. Moya began his photojournalism career after apprenticing with Colombian photojournalist Guillermo Angulo, taking over Angulo’s job when he went to Italy to study cinema. For the next thirteen years, Moya worked for various news magazines covering stories in Mexico and Latin America, especially social and political upheavals such as guerrilla fighters in Venezuela and Guatemala. He also went in 1964 to Cuba to document the revolution there, and took a series of portraits of Che Guevara, including ''El Ché melancólico'' (Melancholy Che) one of two iconic images of Guevara. In 1968, Moya decided he could no longer make a living in photography and worked until the end of the decade as a magazine publisher and short story writer, leaving a large archived packed away. In the very late 1990s, a long illness forced him to move to open and reevaluate this archive and has since worked to promote these images. ==Personal life== Rodrigo Moya was born in Medillin, Colombia in 1934 to a Colombian mother and Mexican father.〔 〕 Over his lifetime, he has been a scuba diver, writer, traveler, editor, photographer and leftist activist.〔 Moya’s father was a set designer with the Mexican theater company ''Hermanos Soler'', when he went on tour with a production to Colombia.〔 〕〔〔 〕 There he met Moya’s mother, who marked him when she was no older than 17.〔 The couple remained in Colombia for a couple of years, where both Rodrigo and his younger sister Colombia were born. The family never returned to Colombia, but Moya’s mother taught him Colombian culture, which gave him a partial Colombian identity. Another influence of his mother was her amateur photography. According to Moya, she spent much time accompanied by a camera, and one of the few things she brought to Mexico from Colombia was her photo albums.〔 Moya received a 6x6cm camera from his father when he graduated from high school, and Moya began taking pictures of local places, his friends and trips.〔 Moya attended the Colegio Militar and then went to National Autonomous University of Mexico to study petrochemical engineering. However, he was a poor student and could not grasp advanced mathematics so he left.〔〔 〕〔 〕 At age twenty, he no longer lived with his parents and needed some way to earn a living. Some friends of his family wanted to start a television station in Colombia and they paid for him to attend an intensive course in television production and direction. When he was doing his first work in this field he met a Colombian photographer, Guillermo Angulo. When Angulo asked Moya about aspects of television cameras, Moya responded that he would teach him what he knew but in return Angulo needed to teach him about photography, especially the development process.〔〔〔 Angulo took Moya to the darkroom at the offices of ''Impacto'' magazine to learn. After seeing this process, he decided to be a photographer. Angulo took him in and made him an assistant and apprentice, learning as well from Portuguese art critic Antonio Rodriguez.〔〔 During his career as a photographer and later as a publisher, Moya’s house became a gathering place for Colombians in Mexico. He was friends with writer Gabriel García Márquez, who he met in the 1950s. In 1977, Moya took a notable photograph of García Márquez with a black eye he received from Mario Vargas Llosa.〔〔 〕〔 〕 At age 70, Moya suffered a long illness, which prompted him and his wife Susan Flaherty to move out of Mexico City into Cuernavaca, where the couple still lives.〔〔〔 The move prompted Moya to revisit the boxes of photographs and negatives from his photojournalism career. Along with photography experts and his wife’s graphic design skills, he has since reorganized and promoted these work.〔 This promotion of his earlier work gave him the opportunity to travel an visit Colombia for the first time in 2014.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rodrigo Moya (photographer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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