Byron Brauchli (Boulder, CO. 1960) specializes in Mexican-American visual studies and alternate photographic processes. He holds an M.F.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, and has taught at such institutions as the University of Texas at Austin, Texas State University, the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, among others. Currently he is a researcher at the Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Veracruz.
He has received a U.S. Mexico Fund for Culture Grant to photograph the Mexican-U.S. border, where he took the images included in Cultural Refractions: Border Life in No Man´s Land. In 1999-2000 he was a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow where he collaborated with the Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Veracruz on the project Landscape and Modernity. With over 90 individual and collective exhibits, his work has been exhibited internationally and is in various collections and magazines.
In 2007 his work was selected for inclusion in the project “Migraciones”, under the auspices of the Mexican National Endowment for the Arts, and this year the University of Veracruz is publishing Frontera, a book of border photography by him and Fernando Meza.