Carlos Álvarez-Montero (Mexico City, 1974) is a photographer with three decades of experience across commercial, editorial, and documentary work. His practice moves between brand campaigns and long-term personal projects rooted in Latin American culture and identity, driven by the idea that appearance reveals a great deal about who we are, and that identity is never fixed.

He holds an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he studied as a Fulbright-García Robles fellow. Working regularly in both Mexico and the United States, he brings a bicultural perspective to every project: the visual language of international commercial work, grounded in an honest gaze shaped by years of documenting real people and places.

His personal projects, from Michoacán to Harlem and the Bronx, have been exhibited in Mexico, the United States, and Europe, and published in Vice, Time, Esquire, and the Financial Times. Since 2018 he has also developed a body of work in drawing and painting that began as a personal exercise and has become a central part of his practice, with its own publications and exhibitions.

In 2019 he co-founded OJO MX, a visual production studio and photographers’ agency based in Mexico City, followed by OJO MX ARTE, a platform for photography and contemporary art.