DOWNTOWN TIJUANA STREET ART
Here are a few shots of street art in downtown area from my visit a month ago. I blogged about Tijuana a couple of times last year as well. Links below. Playas de Tijuana / a Fuckin´Fence in the Sea Signs of Tijuana
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CDMX SUBWAY SERIES: COLOUR
Here are some more shots from the Mexico City Metro System,grainy, blurry and this time in colour.
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CDMX SUBWAY SERIES: BLACK AND WHITE
Me meti en un vagón del metro y no he podido salir de aqui (I jumped into a subway car and I haven´t been able to get off) So starts the song el metro by seminal Mexican rock group Cafe Tacuba. And often, yes, that is the way it feels, trapped, at the mercy of […]
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SUNDAY PLAZA LIFE CDMX
I have recently added a few short series of photos to my instagram which I will add here also. The first is Sunday Plaza Life CDMX. Mexican plazas and parks encapsulate a lot of what is great about life in Mexico and there is no better day than Sunday to visit. They are the ultimate […]
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MEXICO CITY STREET PHOTOGRAPHY IV
Another collection of nine images from the streets of Mexico City, streets of ceaseless vitality. Señora counts the change / Señora cuenta el cambio (Eje Central, Centro Histórico) Where have you been? / Dónde has estado? (Colonia Guerrero) Big Lunch (Centro Histórico) Testing the lines / Probando las lineas (Lagunilla) Soldier looking towards National Palace […]
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RETURN TO INTOLERANCE -PLAZA SANTO DOMINGO CLEARED (TRANSLATION)
On Friday evening I passed Plaza Santo Domingo, just a couple of blocks from where I live, and encountered a veritable tent city. Hundreds of teachers had set up camp all across the plaza which is located directly opposite the headquarters of the Secretariat of Public Education. Teachers from some of Mexico´s poorest states had […]
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PLAYAS DE TIJUANA /A FUCKIN´ FENCE IN THE SEA (PHOTO ESSAY)
I was recently in Tijuana – el último rincón de la patria ( the last corner of the motherland) – having crossed over on foot from the southern suburbs of San Diego. The San Ysidro border crossing is the most crossed land border in the world. Heading south into Mexico,however, the crossing was swift and […]
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PLUMAS Y PEINES (PENS AND COMBS)
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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HOMBRES DEL DISTRITO III
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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LATIN AMERICA FOCUS 