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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If you are interested in regular posts of photographs from the streets of Mexico City and are on facebook, please follow the new page I have created. You can also follow me on instagram. Links below. https://www.facebook.com/mexicocitystreetphotography/ https://www.instagram.com/peterwdavies/
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As I saw recently in the streets of Mexico City. The intrigue is eternal and the fact remains that I will never even come close to getting my head around a minute fraction of it all but still, small fractions of the whole can at least add up to something, also minute as it is. […]
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Below, a third collection of nine photos in this series of Mexico City Street Photography. This collection has a little bit of a theme running through it. There are three photographs of musicians, two of whom belong to the vast army of ambulant musicians (buskers) who roam the streets or station themselves on corners, in […]
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Below, a collection of nine photographs from the streets of Mexico City. All these were taken either in the historic centre of the city or in the neighbourhood of Guerrero which abuts the downtown to the west. All photos have been previously posted on my instagram but I have decided to publish a selection of […]
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Below a second installment of five photographs that I´ve taken on the streets of Mexico City. The first installment is here. Esquina de helado (Ice cream corner): First up is a shot of the ubiquitous Mexican ice cream chain La Michoacana. This particularly retro branch is found on the corner of Calles Guerrero and Orozcco y Berra […]
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The toughest guy on the street sells frilly pink socks for infant girls My neighbour doesn’t smoke weed anymore In the inky dawn a mariachi blows his trumpet across the sky It floats to the doorstep, where he now sniffs solvents, all night blank The same sad señora pushes her little pile of carnitas across […]
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It’s time to draw the second card in our game of la lotería mexicana. Most of us, fortunately, have two of these. Essential to our daily lives and to none more so than the thousands of artesanos (artisans or craftsmen/craftswomen) who ply their trade all across the vast expanses of Mexico City. Yes, our second card is […]
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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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