Jacobo Parra is a Monterrey-based photographer whose work moves between portraiture, constructed imagery, and the visual poetics of everyday life. After initially pursuing studies in Mechanical Engineering at Universidad de Monterrey and Communication at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Parra ultimately embraced photography as his true vocation, beginning with intimate experiments using his family and surroundings as subjects.

In 1994 he produced Diaspora, a documentary series portraying a Mennonite community in Durango, Mexico. The project was later exhibited in Romania and Italy, opening the path for collaborations with various NGOs to document humanitarian aid initiatives in Ghana.

Parra’s visual language emerges from the hybrid culture of Mexican urban imagery and the music industry where he first developed as an artist. Today, his practice gravitates toward a more introspective territory, where the subject and their environment blur until they become symbols of a shared emotional landscape.

His photographs, situated between the documentary and the poetic, reveal what resides behind the instant—those subtle tensions that unfold in the margins of pose, performance, and fiction. In Parra’s work, each image becomes a cultural fragment of identity, memory, and desire.