The streets of Mexico City are jam packed with street art, everything from messy tags to stencil work to wacky sculptures to large and bold murals. Of course Mexico has a long and proud history of muralism exemplified especially by the ´big three´ Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. During the first […]
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As a kind of companion piece to the street photograph collection Mexico City Centro Histórico at dawn that I posted last year, below you will see four shots of the Centro Histórico at (approaching) dusk. These shots are taken from the rooftop of the building where I live, a short ladder climb from my top floor apartment. Looking […]
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The informal economy of Mexico City is a broad church. Hundreds of thousands of individuals look for their unique way to earn enough pesos to survive each day; selling gum or earphones on the metro, frying quesadillas on a kerbside griddle, riding a bicycle with a steel vat full of tamales attached, washing windscreens, selling […]
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It´s a different experience walking in certain streets of the historic centre of the city on a Sunday as opposed to a Saturday or any other day of the week for that matter. Things calm down markedly, even in a megalopolis of this magnitude. While you won´t notice any difference if you join the throngs marching down […]
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Yes, Bolivia is a republic but the official name of the country is actually Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia (Plurinational State of Bolivia). That´s probably too long to put onto a street sign so República de Bolivia it is. Landlocked Bolivia – the country – is one of the poorest in the Americas. It is, however, blessed with […]
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I´ve spent four of the last five years in the Americas. About two years of that time has been spent traveling the length and width of the continent; from Patagonia to the USA, the Pacific to the Atlantic and into the interior – the Amazon river, highlands of Bolivia, Machu Pichu, volcanoes of Central America. […]
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A faint click…, click…., tick…. comes from somewhere in the distance, mixing with other sounds of the street; clangs, whistles, horns, calls…pasele, cuántos te damos? Advancing on calle lopez in the centro histórico the sound grows louder. I reach the corner with victoria, a block back from metro San Juan de Letran on Eje Central. I pause at a point where so often I stride […]
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With thousands and thousands of others I spent the latter half of Saturday afternoon wandering around the bustling streets of Mexico City’s historic centre. Walking down the pedestrian street of San Jeronimo, I came across a heavy metal band playing against the backdrop of a Catholic cathedral, an interesting juxtaposition. Below is a short video […]
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All photos taken between 6:40 and 7:40 am on Tuesday March 18 in the Centro Histórico of Mexico City
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