Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, best known as Juan Rulfo, was a Mexican writer, screenwriter, and photographer. He is best known for two literary works, the 1955 novel Pedro Páramo, and the collection of short stories El Llano en llamas (1953). This collection includes the popular tale "¡Diles que no me maten!" ("Tell Them Not to Kill Me!").

Rulfo was a photographer before he became a writer. Rulfo’s photography is an opportunity to see the Mexico of the 1940s and 1950s, preserved in stark black and white, through the same eyes as the man who narrated the troubles and pitfalls of this period so memorably in words.