About
Street Photographer Based in Mexico.
Héctor Faya Rodríguez is a Mexico City–based street photographer whose work is built on proximity— to people, to noise, to silence. He found photography almost by accident, on a street corner in São Paulo, camera in hand, seeing clearly for the first time in years.
For over two decades, Faya worked in public policy across government, large institutions, and academia. Over time, photography became a counterweight: a way to slow down, to notice without interpreting, to stay close to the quiet detail of lived experience. In his images, the street is not a document but an emotional architecture—where light, bodies, glass, and movement carry the drama of the everyday.
Working with natural light and minimal tools, he often photographs through reflections and transparent surfaces, capturing gestures, silences, and tensions suspended between intimacy and rupture. His photographs don’t aim to explain. They offer fragments—moments that linger like something overheard or half-remembered.
Faya is also the founder of Aurora Policy Solutions, a public policy design firm. Across both strategy and photography, he returns to the same question: what do we lose when we stop paying attention? For him, a photograph is not a conclusion—it’s a pause.
His work has been exhibited at MX Street Photo Fest, the BBA Prize 10th Anniversary Exhibition (Berlin), and Fulle Gallery, and has received recognition from the Paris International Photo Awards (PISPA), Dublin Street Photography Festival, International Photography Awards (IPA), Macadam Awards, Conexión Calle (La Estrit), Livorno Photo Meeting, Eyeshot Open Call, and El México de los Mexicanos III (Banco Nacional de México), and has been featured in an interview with Latina Republic.
