Rodrigo Moya, a Mexican photographer born in Medellín, Colombia in 1934, was a photojournalist from 1955 to 1968, especially in magazines where photography was widely deployed. In those years he published more than a hundred reports and numerous reviews and photographic illustrations, particularly in weeklies such as Impact, Events, Politics, Always! and others.

In 1968 he founded the specialized magazine Pesquera, which he directed and edited monthly for twenty-two years. At that time he approached with writing and his photography everything concerning the fishing and the seas of Mexico, without leaving the sociological and historical documentation, strongly present in the corpus of his photography.

In the 90s he explored the narrative, and in 1997 he won the National Short Story Award from the National Institute of Fine Arts, with the stories "Tales to read by the sea", published by Tusquets Editores with CONACULTA. That same year he won the Edmundo Valadés Latin American Tale Contest, while publishing chronicles and reports in newspapers and cultural magazines.

He has presented multiple solo and group exhibitions; In July 2015 to July 2016, a retrospective exhibition, Photography and Consciousness / Photography and Conscience, was presented at The Wittliff Collections in San Marcos, Texas, and at the same time the bilingual book of the same name edited by the UT Press was presented. Recent exhibitions include in October 2017 "Cuba 1964: the Revolution on March" at the Cervantino International Festival; in January 2018 he participated in "Mementos" at the Etherton Gallery, Tucson, Arizona.

Currently, his work is cited in the most important recounts and analysis on Mexican and Latin American photography and has an extensive presence in private collections and museums in Mexico and the United States, among which are: The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, USA ; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA; The Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas, USA; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, USA; The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, USA; The Wittliff Collection, San Marcos, TX, USA; Casa Amèrica Catalunya, Barcelona, ??Spain; The Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City; Fundación Televisa Collection, Mexico City; and the University Museum of Contemporary Art, UNAM, Mexico City, among others.

Since 1998 he lives in the city of Cuernavaca with his wife, the designer and illustrator Susan Flaherty, with whom he works in the development and diffusion of the Rodrigo Moya Photographic Archive.