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Biography
Daniela Rossell (born 1973, Mexico City) is a Mexican photographer that uses her work to depict the privileged lives of the Mexican elite. Rossell's mother was a proud art collector and the early exposure to art in her home encouraged her appreciation for the arts.

Rossell first studied theatre at the American School Foundation and became an actress by the young age of sixteen. Rossell later shifted from theatre to painting when she went to the Nation School of Visual Arts, but after a short time dropped out to pursue photography.

Art
Rossell is most well known for her photography project turned book Ricas y famosas (Rich and Famous) published in 1994. The book contains photos depicting the lives of many young women in Mexico's wealthy class that Rossell was greatly familiar with. Born into family that were members of the PRI, the long-ruling political party in Mexico, the subjects of her art were easily accessible. This relationship to the PRI is what has encouraged a political heavy opinion and many viewers have seen the women as objects of the corruption that is going on Mexico today.