Get your boards ready, it’s time to play La Lotería Mexicana. I’m on a quest to photograph all 54 images of the traditional lotería mexicana here in the streets, markets, cantinas, squares and wherever else of Mexico City, where surely all 54 images wait to be found . The cards could come up in any order, be ready to […]
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Cuicuilco is a lesser known archaeological site in the south of Mexico City. It is probably the oldest prehispanic settlement site in the Valley of Mexico. It covers only quite a small area and you probably only need an hour or so to have a pretty good look around. Metrobus station Villa Olimpica on Avenida Insurgentes […]
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Amidst thousands and thousands of photos that I have taken between Patagonia in the South and Chihuahua in the north, from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean sea, there are certain shots that stand out to me – my favourites. There can be no doubting that the region is extremely photogenic. There […]
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It’s just after 1pm when I leave my sixth floor apartment in the Mexico City Historic Centre and walk a couple of blocks to Pulquería La Antigua Roma (Ancient Rome) on the corners of calles Allende and República de Perú. It’s an old school, no-nonsense place with plastic chairs in a square room with just four small […]
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I recently spent a few days in Guadalajara, Mexico’s second city, for the first time. Tapatío or Tapatía are the adjectival and noun forms used to describe people or things that originate from the city. I spent the few days doing a lot of wandering and watching, mainly in and around the historic centre of […]
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Bolivia lost its access to the Pacific Ocean during the War of the Pacific towards the end of the 19th century. Now, in the wake of Chile’s victory over Argentina in the final of the Copa America comes this satirical article by Roy Bobadilla. Read the original in Spanish at the site eldeforma.com. Bolivia obtains […]
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Hans Giébe is an artist, writer, painter and poet who hails from the city of Pachuca in the Mexican state of Hidalgo. He is quite prolific in his output and also writes at his site ‘The Seventh Verb.’ Take a look! I met Hans sometime last year at a poetry reading of the online […]
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I take a lot of photos on the streets of Mexico City and elsewhere, many of which just end up on my computer without ever really finding much of an audience. So I thought I would start publishing some of them here in batches of 5. Here is the first instalment. This first photo I […]
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Despite working just nearby in the Cuajimalpa borough for almost a year, I never visited or explored the edge city of Santa Fe, situated around thirteen and a half kilometres southwest of the central square in Mexico City’s historic centre. So, after I recently returned to my former workplace to finalise my resignation I decided to head […]
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Today is an election day in Mexico and there have been several deaths of candidates in the lead up to what has been described as Mexico’s dirtiest election in decades. So, amidst all the doom and gloom of news out of Mexico I present some bright rays of sunshine: Chicas Poblanas or in English Puebla Girls. The […]
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