The street art across Mexico City adds a great deal of colour and beauty to the streets of the hyper-metropolis. This image is from a street not far from Plaza Garibaldi in the downtown area – the home of Mexico City’s mariachi musicians. I’ve got hundreds of street art shots from Mexico City and I […]
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Homelessness is a complex problem facing people all over the world. I try to understand a little more about individual cases of homelessness by sharing conversations from time to time with folk I come across on the street. The gentleman featured is an ‘indigente’ that I met on the streets of the historic centre of […]
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It’s a bright Sunday morning and I am sitting in the shade on the fringes of a pedestrian thoroughfare engrossed in the sordid Parisian world of Henry Miller’s ‘Tropic of Cancer’. I raise my gaze to see Sunday strollers meander by. Parishioners stream from the colonial era church, momentarily coagulating the flow of passers-by. A […]
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A blur! It feels like this a lot of the time but in Mexico City there is not a better way to get around the city. I visited the station and surrounds of the whole system and documented the experience with photographic images and anecdotes. Check out the Mexico City Metro Project.
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WELCOME TO THE MEXICO CITY MEXICO PROJECT! ¡BIENVENIDOS AL MEXICO CITY METRO PROJECT! In whatever way and for whatever reason you have arrived here I hope you enjoy or find what you are looking for. Please read on to find out more about the MCM Project. I would love to hear your impressions. En […]
Read moreAfter six months and a smidgen to boot, the rolling, engaged motion of the virtual carriages of the Mexico City Metro Project comes to a final halt. 146 prior stops provided enormous scope for urban wander, yielding tremendous urban wonder (within the ordinary as well) and that, of course, has been the narrative and pictorial […]
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The station icon for Garibaldi / Lagunilla (as you can see above), the penultimate in the Mexico City Metro Project series, depicts a crisscrossing of a guitar and a sarape. Why? Well, not far from the station is Plaza Garibaldi – the home of Mariachi music in Mexico City. I’ll get back to the Mariachis […]
Read moreOff at San Juan De Letran, rise to the surface and here I am – smack-bang in the kernel of the big corn of Latin America. Sheer, utter density of human traffic and stagnant mass clog the pavement, impeding the possibility and desire of an elongated rhythmic stride through the streets. It’s usually a stop, […]
Read moreShuffle out the door and I am already in the vicinity. For station # 50 the MCM Project paid a visit to Isabel La Catolica, one of two of my base stations. Today I veered to the right to the equally nearby Salto Del Agua. Situated on the main drag of the centre of Mexico […]
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This is the first of the final five stations of the MCM Project. Once upon a time, Coyoacan, meaning ‘place of the coyote’, was a stand alone village. Now it has been well and truly engulfed by the urban sprawl of the Federal District. However, Coyoacan still retains a unique identity. It is a popular […]
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