HELP University College is proud to collaborate with the Embassy of Mexico and Instituto Cervantes in celebrating the Bicentennial of Mexico National Independence and the Centennial of the Mexico Revolution, by hosting a Photography Exhibition, themed “Inland Royal Road”. This exhibition will take us through the imaginative lense of Mr Eniac Martinez, a Mexican photographer through his personal journey of capturing fascinating landscape and its local communities at the Inland Royal Road, the oldest road in North America. HELP is the first and only institution in Malaysia to display his works.

The photographs on display depict the story of the Inland Royal Road, its people, culture, tradition and landscape transformation. Since the 16th century, this road was the main transportation route for communication, trade and cultural exchange among the people of North America for a distance of over 3,000 kilometres. Today after more than four centuries, the Inland Royal Road is a bustling international highway and remains the oldest continuously used road anywhere in the North America and still links Mexico and the United States, sharing cultures, ideas, languages and interests along a continental path.

Members of the public are invited to the launch of the Inland Royal Road Photography Exhibition on 22 June 2010, 6.30 pm at HELP University College, Pusat Bandar Damansara. His Excellency Jorge Alberto Lozoya, the Ambassador of Mexico to Malaysia will be present to grace the event. The Photo Exhibition will run from 22 June to 5 July 2010, from 10.00 am to 5.30 pm at the Main Block of HELP University College in Pusat Bandar Damansara. Admission is free.

For more information on the event, please call 03 2099 3719 or email ashanc [at] help [dot] edu [dot] my.

About the photographer

Mr. Eniac Martinez had many awards and accolades under his hat, having exhibited his works individually for 35 times and participated in more than 50 collective national and international exhibitions.

He has received many distinguished awards; amongst them were first place at V Biennial of Photography of the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico, winner for First Annual Award from Mother Jones International for Documentary Photography, first runner-up for VII Contest of Anthropological Photography and many more.

He has also been awarded a Fullbright scholarship and is the author of the books ‘Mixtecos’, ‘Litorales’ and the ‘Camino Real de Tierra Adentro’.