Here are a few street shots I have taken in the streets of the Centro Histórico of Mexico over the past week. Aztec Dancer / Danzante Azteca The Secret Keeper / El Guardián de Secretos Incongruent Symmetry / Simetría Incongruente Meeting / Reunión Micro / Pesero All photos first appeared on my instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterwdavies/ More […]
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Corner of Bolívar and Chimalpopoca streets in Colonia Obrera where a textile factory collapsed in the September 19 earthquake. 16 people were rescued from the rubble but a further 21 died. Most of the victims were seamstresses including Central American and Taiwanese women. There was some conflict after 3 days of search efforts between authorities […]
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The Raised Fist You are from the place where you pick up the garbage. Where two bolts of lightning fall in the same place. Because you saw the first, you wait for the second. And you’re still here. Where the earth opens and people come together. You arrived late again: You’re alive because you’re unpunctual, […]
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This is a translation I did some time ago of a short story by a Spanish writer David Roas for the Latin American literature in translation project Palabras Errantes. Well, the universe is everything, and if it’s expanding, someday it will break apart, and that will be the end of everything. What has […]
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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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About five years ago I was in Huehuetenango, Guatemala having crossed the border from Méjico and rattled into town on a chicken bus. It was getting late so I stayed in a sketchy little hotel near the bus station, probably cost around 40 queztales or five bucks American. Huehue is a kind of bustling town although […]
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Yeah, you know I’ve been watching you for a while now I’ve gotta dance with you today I saw your look was calling me Show me the path I’m on You, you’re the magnet and I’m the metal I’m getting closer and hatching a plan Just thinking about it gets my pulse racing […]
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A series of 7 photos of an abandoned PEMEX gas station in the Baja California desert at Cataviña.
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Here are a few shots of street art in downtown area from my visit a month ago. I blogged about Tijuana a couple of times last year as well. Links below. Playas de Tijuana / a Fuckin´Fence in the Sea Signs of Tijuana
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