Destiny Mata - Photographer & Filmmaker

MPS Digital Photography presents a talk with Destiny Mata, a Mexican American photographer and filmmaker based in her native New York City focusing on issues of subculture and community.
After studying photojournalism at LaGuardia Community College and San Antonio College, Mata spent two years as director of photography programs at the Lower Eastside Girls Club. Her photography has been published in The New York Times, The Nation, The Guardian and The Culture Crush. Mata recently has been awarded the Magnum Foundation fellowship 2023. She exhibited “La Vida En Loisaida: Life on the Lower East Side,” a solo exhibition at Photoville Festival 2020. She has taken part in a group exhibition at ICP Concerned Global Images for Global Crisis at the International Center of Photography 2020, Magnum Foundation US Dispatches Grantee 2020, Mexic-Arte Museum, Young Latino Artists 21: Amexican@ 2016 and in 2014 she exhibited photographs of the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy at the Museum of New York City’s “Rising Waters: Photographs of Sandy” exhibition. She is currently preparing a series of documentary works continuing her exploration of the fabric of the communities around her.
The i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series has returned to in-person events. The series continues to feature leading photographers, artists, editors, gallerists and industry experts. The spring 2024 i3 lecture series is hosted and curated by curator, editor and vice-president of the American Photography Archives Group Julie Grahame.
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