Pablo Márquez Galeria, Todos Santos Baja California, the story.

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  About Pablo Márquez

Biography

Pablo Márquez is a Mexican fine art photographer born in Mexico City. He lived and worked for many years in the United States, including New York, where he served as a foreign correspondent at the United Nations in the early 1990s. He later studied filmmaking in California and Washington, D.C., including under independent filmmaker Haile Gerima and Mexican filmmaker Paul Leduc.

For more than three decades, Márquez has developed a multidisciplinary practice centered on photography, documentary, and long-term explorations of landscape and human presence. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions, including Paul Fisher Gallery (Miami), The Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Arts, the European Museum of Modern Art (Barcelona), and Galata Museo del Mare (Genova, Italy). His works are held in private collections across North America and Europe and in the permanent collection of The Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Arts.

In 2017, he relocated to Baja California Sur, Mexico, where extended explorations of desert, mountain, and coastal environments marked a significant evolution in his practice. Based in Todos Santos, he founded Marquez Gallery, where he continues to develop long-term photographic projects rooted in direct engagement with the natural landscape.

Origins — Baja California, 2017

In 2017, I moved  to Baja California, Todos Santos, drawn by the remote desert landscapes and the annual migration of whales along the Pacific coast. What began as geographic exploration gradually became a deeper shift in perception.

Working alone in vast, quiet environments, attention intensified. Time slowed. Familiar reference points dissolved. The act of seeing changed. It was during this period that the images that would later form Sacred Code began to emerge. The transformation was not dramatic but gradual — a movement from observing landscape to inhabiting it.

The work that followed grew from sustained presence in the field and the Gallery in Todos Santos.

On Presence and Perception

Fine Art Photography begins before the camera.

It begins with attention.

For me, seeing is not passive observation but a state of Presence — a quiet alignment with what is unfolding. It is the willingness to remain still long enough for something subtle to reveal itself without being forced or interpreted too quickly.

Perception is not fixed. It shifts with light, distance, and the inner condition of the one who looks. What we see is inseparable from how we see. In this sense, photography becomes less about capturing an image and more about entering a relationship with the world as it appears.

Extended time in natural environments has refined this practice. Silence sharpens perception. Attention deepens. The work emerges not from imposing meaning, but from allowing form to surface within the field of awareness.

Presence is the condition.

Perception is the movement within it.

Everything that follows grows from there.

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Guiding Values

• Presence over speed
• Depht over trend
• Integrity over visibility
• Attention over distraction
• Long term inquiry over immediate reation
• respect for nature´s intelligence
• Freedom of perseption for the viewer.
• Promise kept. The same attention given the work is given to every delivery we make.

• Limited Editions.  

• Editions Integrity & Archival Records
  Marquez Gallery maintains detailed archival records for each limited edition work, including: Edition size and format, Print dimensions, Edition number placement
  Date of production, Collector placement (when applicable).
  This documentation ensures the long-term integrity, traceability, and authenticity of each artwork.
  The artist is committed to preserving the value and scarcity of every edition. No edition will be expanded beyond its stated limit.
  In the event of damage, loss, or replacement requests, records allow for accurate verification in accordance with edition policies.
  The preservation of edition integrity is fundamental to the artist’s ethical and professional practice.

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• Sacred Code

SACRED CODE / Sand

Impermanent / Ethereal , Ephemeral  Art Work  2019-2026 

Sacred Code is a discovery of perception. Through photography, ephemeral natural formations reveal structures that often go unnoticed. The works document transient patterns — primarily sand shaped by wind, water, gravity, and time — that exist briefly before dissolving.

Nothing in these images is constructed or digitally altered. What may appear abstract or painterly is entirely natural. My eyes — with the camera as their extension — do not impose form, but attend to what has already taken shape. The work is completed in the act of seeing, where each viewer encounters it through their own perception.

Impermanence is central to the project. Many of these formations vanish within minutes or hours. The photograph becomes a record of appearance — evidence that a moment of alignment between natural forces once occurred.

The mystery is found in the field itself — and comes fully alive through each viewer’s unique perception.

Pablo Marquez.

Sustainability  & Archival Practice

•  People care for what they value.

  An emotional connection to nature is essential to its protection.

   

  Sacred Code is rooted in direct engagement with fragile natural environments. When working in remote landscapes, care and minimal impact are fundamental. The work documents impermanent formations shaped by natural forces — preserving, through photography, moments that no longer exist while respecting the environments in which they were found.

   

  All prints are produced using museum-grade archival materials. Works are printed on Canson® Infinity papers that exceed ISO 9706 standards and have been independently tested by Wilhelm Imaging Research for longevity. Under proper display conditions, prints are rated to last up to 125 years when framed with UV-protective glazing.

   

  Frames are crafted from responsibly sourced cultivated wood. Works are presented with Museum Glass (99% UV protection) or conservation-grade Art Glass (70% UV protection), ensuring both preservation and clarity.

   

  The commitment to sustainability extends from the landscape to the final object — preserving both the environment and the artwork for future generations.

   

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  Prints & Inquiries

  (Print sizes, editions, pricing upon request, contact:: info@pablomarquez.com.mx, /  pablomarquez81@gmail.com

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• PABLO MARQUEZ. 

  CV

  Biography

  Pablo Márquez (b. Mexico City) is a Mexican fine art photographer whose practice spans more than three decades. He lived and worked in the United States for many years, including New York, where he served as a foreign correspondent at the United Nations for Mexican media.

   

  In 2017, he relocated to Baja California Sur, Mexico, his work deepened into landscape-based investigations that culminated in Sacred Code. He currently lives and works in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, where he founded Pablo Marquez Gallery.

  His practice centers on exploration, perception, and the relationship between human consciousness and nature.

   

  Selected Solo & Group Exhibitions

   

  • Pablo Marquez Gallery, Todos Santos, Mexico (2023–present)
  • Hotel San Cristóbal, Baja California Sur, Mexico (2018)
  • Chashama, “Art is Everywhere,” Times Square, New York (2016)
  • Paul Fisher Gallery, Miami, USA (2015)
  • Florence Biennale, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy (2015)
  • European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM), Barcelona, Spain (2015)
  • Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Arts, Las Vegas, USA (2014–2015)
  • Galata Museo del Mare, Genoa, Italy (2015)
  • ArtExpo, Pier 94, New York, USA (2015)
  • Casa della Cultura del Mondo, Milan, Italy (2014)
  • 1st Biennale de l’Italia della Creatività, Verona, Italy (2014)
  • Galería Mexicana de Diseño, Mexico City (2001)

   

  Public Collections

   

  • Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Arts, Las Vegas, USA

   

  Selected Publications

   

  • Vanguard Visionaries: The Art of Creativity, Art Platform NYC (2015)
  • International Contemporary Masters IX, WWAB (2015)
  • The Best Modern & Contemporary Artists, EA Editore, Rome (2014)
  • Effetto Arte Magazine, Palermo, Italy (2014)
  • Art Spectrum Magazine, New York (2014)
  • Exposure Award Collection, Louvre Museum Presentation, Paris (2015)

   

  Artist Books

   

  • Panoramas (2007)
  • Centrífuga (2006)
  • Walls (2005)
  • Elegía del Amor (2001)
  • India (1992)

   

  Residencies & Distinctions

  • Berlin Artist Residence, The Wapping Project (Finalist)
  • CPW Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY (Portfolio Reviews)
  • Acquisition into Permanent Collection, Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Arts.

• Works are held in private collections across:

  London, Paris, Rome, Denmark, Mexico City, Los Angeles, New York, Washington D.C., Texas, Colorado, Boston, Vancouver, Chicago, and many others.