Double Cones / Conos Dobles Corset / Corsé The sailor’s two suitresses / Las dos pretendientas del marinero The things other people see / Las cosas que ven otras personas National Lottery / Lotería Nacional Seeking an audience with AMLO Sightseeing in Moscow / Turisteando en Moscú
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Here is an extended interview / chat with El Chapulín (The Grasshopper). The guy is almost as good at talking as he is at jumping. I wrote about him once before in my defunct Corners of the City series. Interview is in Español and is actually from a couple of years ago. The building you’ll see […]
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Here are some more shots from the Mexico City Metro System,grainy, blurry and this time in colour.
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Me meti en un vagón del metro y no he podido salir de aqui (I jumped into a subway car and I haven´t been able to get off) So starts the song el metro by seminal Mexican rock group Cafe Tacuba. And often, yes, that is the way it feels, trapped, at the mercy of […]
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Here is the tenth and, for the time being, the final instalment of this series. I´ve probably never been more esconced in the city than I am right now, CDMX (Ciudad de México) that is, as it is now known, at least in theory (more commonly in hashtags #). El DF (Distrito Federal) lives on […]
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Nine more images from the streets of Mexico City for this ninth edition of this series, Mexico City Street Photography. A friend of the canine kind makes a first appearance along with an array of other chilangos, fellow inhabitants of the vast concrete megalopolis. I´ll probably conclude this series with the next (10th) instalment and […]
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I was recently in Tijuana – el último rincón de la patria ( the last corner of the motherland) – having crossed over on foot from the southern suburbs of San Diego. The San Ysidro border crossing is the most crossed land border in the world. Heading south into Mexico,however, the crossing was swift and […]
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On weekdays I alight from the subway, the new day still in darkness and join the throng to ascend the stairs and listen to the female cry of 5 peso jellies for breakfast. Through the turnstiles and then I turn left, still groggy from too little sleep and pass churros being sugared, fruits high-powered liquefied, […]
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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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