Daniel Mendoza Alafita was born in Mexico, D.F. in 1957. He holds a degree in Photography in the Faculty of Plastic Arts of the University of Veracruz, and studied with the Master Nacho López. In 1987 he founded the first agency of photographic information in the State of Veracruz, Imagenjarocha, and is a member of the Association of graphic reporters. From 1991 to 1994 he was a professor of the Faculty of Plastic Arts of the University of Veracruz. His work has been published internationally in magazines and newspapers, and he has participated in more than thirty collective expositions including "Room the Vall of Reaped", sponsored by the Caixa Sagunt in Valencia, Spain and "Looking at the 90s" in Houston, Texas, United States.