Portrait of Weasel at Silent Barn Brooklyn New York City part of an Underground Punx of Color photo series.

Destiny Mata is a Mexican American photographer and filmmaker based in her native New York City focusing on issues of subculture and community. After studying photojournalism at La Guardia Community College and San Antonio College, she spent two years as Director of Photography Programs at the Lower East Side Girls Club Mata and has had work published and featured in The New York Times, The Nation, Teen Vogue, Vice’s Noisey, Vibe Magazine, The Source Magazine, and Frank151. Mata has recently exhibited La Vida En Loisaida: Life on the Lower East Side at Photoville Festival 2020. She has taken part in a group exhibition at ICP Concerned Global Images for Global Crisis at the International Center of Photography 2020, Magnum Foundation US Dispatches Grantee 2020, Mexic-Arte Museum, Young Latino Artists 21: Amexican@ 2016 and in 2014 she exhibited photographs of the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy at the Museum of New York City’s, Rising Waters: Photographs of Sandy exhibition. She is currently preparing a series of documentary works continuing her exploration of the fabric of the communities around her.