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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Xochimlico is a southern municipality of Mexico City, famous for its canals. The most popular way to experience the canals is onboard a colourful trajinera, a uniquely Mexican version of the Venetian gondola. With a group of friends and/or family you can load up your trajinera with as much food and drink you need for an afternoon of meandering […]
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Here is a third instalment of a series that I started late last year. Click here and here for the first two parts. All of the photos are recent and all but one were taken in the historic centre of Mexico City. A musician descends the stairs at Pino Suarez Metro Station in the late […]
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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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Here’s a second instalment of hombres del distrito because if there is something that Mexico City is not lacking, it is men. Siesta time on the corner of cinco de mayo and eje central in the centro histórico. Ambulant vendor in front of trajineras in the canal district of Xochimilco. Musician on calle regina in the centro histórico. […]
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The title I have given to this collection of three photos is straight forward. In the case of the first two, it simply describes their occupation in the informal economy of Mexico City; torta (Mexican sandwich) maker and sweet potato vendor. I’m not sure of the occupation of the third guy or whether he has […]
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Below is a just a minuscule selection of the street art that can be found all over Mexico’s Federal District. I like to wander the city and be surprised by what’s around the next corner. Some of the art stays for a while, some is ephemeral, something new will pop up, the city is dynamic […]
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For the past five years Jose “Pepe” Ortiz has been impersonating Mexican Independence hero Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla on the streets of Mexico City and in various other cities and towns of the Mexican republic. Recently I sat down with Jose for around an hour and a half to talk about his current vocation, his […]
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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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Get your boards ready, it’s time to play La Lotería Mexicana. I’m on a quest to photograph all 54 images of the traditional lotería mexicana here in the streets, markets, cantinas, squares and wherever else of Mexico City, where surely all 54 images wait to be found . The cards could come up in any order, be ready to […]
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