Cuicuilco is a lesser known archaeological site in the south of Mexico City. It is probably the oldest prehispanic settlement site in the Valley of Mexico. It covers only quite a small area and you probably only need an hour or so to have a pretty good look around. Metrobus station Villa Olimpica on Avenida Insurgentes […]
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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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I take a lot of photos on the streets of Mexico City and elsewhere, many of which just end up on my computer without ever really finding much of an audience. So I thought I would start publishing some of them here in batches of 5. Here is the first instalment. This first photo I […]
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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 […]
Read moreAround noon today on a makeshift cement field in a small square in downtown Mexico City a competitive game of futból was underway between two teams of homeless guys, eager for next week´s bragging rights.
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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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On the streets of central Mexico City – 5 months since the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa teaching students.
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