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A tender portrait of life and ritual from Mexico City’s streets

Órale — For the last six years of his life, photographer, collector and designer Michel Hurst documented death rituals, street life and religious pageantry in contemporary Mexico. A new monograph showcases his work. 

  • Culture
  • Roxana Diba
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A stark, confronting window into the global cocaine trade

Sangre Blanca — Mads Nissen’s new book is a close-up look at various stages of the drug’s journey, from production to consumption, and the violence that follows wherever it goes.

  • Activism
  • Isaac Muk

Free-spirited, otherworldly portraits of Mexico City’s queer youth

Birds — Pieter Henket’s new collaborative photobook creates a stage for CDMX’s LGBTQ+ community to express themselves without limitations, styling themselves with wild outfits that subvert gender and tradition.

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk

Uncovering the not-so-subtle queerness of Mexican rodeos

JARIPEO — A new experimental film by Rebecca Zweig and Efraín Mojica explores the looks, embraces and brushes of skin contact in which LGBTQ+ desire manifests at the traditionally hyper-masculine events.

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk
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Striking portraits of side-saddled, Mexican rodeo women in the USA

Escaramuza — Photographer and competitive horse rider Constance Jaeggi travelled across America to meet and document the women taking part in charrería – Mexico’s national sport – uncovering stories of migration, culture and identity in the process.

  • Sport
  • Isaac Muk
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Capturing what life is really like at Mexico’s border with the USA

Border Documents — Across four years, Arturo Soto photographed life in Juárez, the city of his father’s youth, to create a portrait of urban and societal change, memory, and fluid national identity.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
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Meet the Kumeyaay, the indigenous peoples split by the US-Mexico border wall

A growing divide — In northwestern Mexico and parts of Arizona and California, the communities have faced isolation and economic struggles as physical barriers have risen in their ancestral lands. Now, elders are fighting to preserve their language and culture.

  • Activism
  • Alicia Fàbregas

Meet the muxes of Juchitán, Mexico’s Indigenous third gender

Zapotec folk — Having existed since the pre-colonial era in southeast Oaxaca state, a global rise in LGBTQ+ hate is seeing an age-old culture face increasing scrutiny. Now, the community is organising in response, and looking for a space to call their own.

  • Activism
  • Peter Yeung

Chronicling Mexican womanhood through portrait photography

A new photobook offers an expansive look at the iconography and expression of the female experience in the Latin American nation.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

Inside life on Tijuana’s garbage dumps

Jack Lueders-Booth spent nine summers documenting a community who scratched out a living among trash.

  • Photography
  • Isaac Muk

A flamboyant portrait of a traditional Mexican dance

The danzón — For three years, Chiara Bonetti has been documenting individuals across Mexico City who are keeping a traditional dance form alive.

  • Culture
  • Eva Clifford

Photos capturing the wild world of Mexican rodeo

El Charreada — On a trip to Mexico, London-based photographer Alex Kurunis captured the spirit of the country’s national sport, in photos which celebrate the people keeping the tradition alive today.

  • Culture
  • Eva Clifford

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