Xavier Revuelta, born on June 19, 1990, is originally from Magdalena Tlacotepec, a town located on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a tropical region of the state of Oaxaca, in Mexico. He has a master's degree in education, has been a university professor, is a multidisciplinary artist and cultural promoter.
His learning in photography is self-taught, in 2019 he began a job in a more formal and constant way as a photographer, through which he was able to give vent to the various emotions that the COVID 19 pandemic brought with it, he became shortly after, in addition to a therapeutic activity, a passion that has led him to portray the singularity of his region. In/with his photographs, he intends to exalt the beauty of brown skin, Istmeño features, the particular aesthetics of its context, to re-dignify them, as a response and in resistance to the hegemonic standards of aesthetics and beauty,which reject the indigenous-Zapotec. He currently works as a craftsman and as a freelance photographer.
