LATIN AMERICA, MEXICO, PHOTO ESSAY, PHOTOGRAPHY

MEXICO CITY MISCELLANEOUS FIVE II

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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MEXICO, mexico city, PHOTO ESSAY, PHOTOGRAPHY, Uncategorized

BOLÍVAR Y CHIMALPOPOCA

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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ART, TRANSLATION, TRAVEL

DUPLICATES BY DAVID ROAS (TRANSLATION)

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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ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE, ART, CENTRAL AMERICA, GUATEMALA, PHOTOGRAPHY, TRAVEL

ZACULEU

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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