Snapshot: 'Rosina and models' (2013), by Yvonne Venegas

Contemporary Mexican photographers "I like to photograph the things that come between the perfect moment and the mistake," says Yvonne Venegas, a California-born Mexican photographe whose father is a well-known Tijuana photographer and whose twin sister is a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter. Venegas is interested in posing and how people behave in front of a lens: her pictures frequently capture the awkwardness in the seconds before the shutter is pressed.

The picture above was taken at a modelling agency in San Pedro Garza Garcia, a city-municipality of the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon with one of the highest income per capitas of any place in Latin America. Venegas's work, which often draws attention to the state of Mexico's inequality gap (one of the highest in the world among developed nations), is included in a group show in San Francisco celebrating contemporary Mexican photographers that opened this week.

'Existe lo que tiene nombre: Contemporary Photography in Mexico' is at SF Camerawork, San Francisco, until May 23; sfcamerawork.org

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