Leo Matiz started taking photographs in 1939 on “order” of Enrique Santos Motejo “Calibán”, editor-in-chief of El Tiempo, who had given him his first camera and encouraged him to work with photography two years earlier. He was a caricaturist, and the newspaper had been publishing his incisive cartoons for several years already.
His first job would have been challenging even for an experienced photographer: producing an archive of social categories in Colombia.
Leo Matiz started taking photographs in 1939 on “order” of Enrique Santos Motejo “Calibán”, editor-in-chief of El Tiempo, who had given him his first camera and encouraged him to work with photography two years earlier. He was a caricaturist, and the newspaper had been publishing his incisive cartoons for several years already.
His first job would have been challenging even for an experienced photographer: producing an archive of social categories in Colombia.