Tag: "photography"

Death in El Salvador

Death in El Salvador

| September 7, 2009 | Comments (1)

The killing of documentary maker Christian Poveda represents a sad loss for a region much in need of greater understanding.

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Mexico beats U.S in soccer showdown

Mexico beats U.S in soccer showdown

| August 13, 2009 | Comments (0)

A T-shirt for sale outside Mexico City’s Stadium Azteca yesterday afternoon, during a World Cup qualifying match between the U.S and Mexico, which Mexico won 2:1.

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Mexican image of Brazil wins World Press Photo prize

Mexican image of Brazil wins World Press Photo prize

| August 6, 2009 | Comments (0)

Mexican photographer Carlos Cazalis was one of the winners in this year’s World Press Photo contest. The photographer was given first prize in the Contemporary Issues section for this image he took in São Paulo, Brazil, last year. The photo shows a man sleeping, wrapped in a blanket against the cold, outside São Paulo’s elite [...]

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Picture perfect this morning – Chapultepec lake

Picture perfect this morning – Chapultepec lake

| June 3, 2009 | Comments (0)

Clouds reflected in one of the lakes in Chapultepec Park early this morning.

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Video: Training Day

Video: Training Day

| May 30, 2009 | Comments (1)

My breath is tearing out of my lungs and my leg muscles are screaming for a reprieve. I just scaled a 60-degree hill coated in thorny brambles and poisonous plants whilst being pounded by rain. In the dark. I thought it couldn’t get any worse, but it did. Later that night, my fellow journalists and I were kidnapped by masked guerillas who jumped onto our bus.

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Video: Mexican journalists put through their survival paces

Video: Mexican journalists put through their survival paces

| May 29, 2009 | Comments (1)

A couple of non-profits got together and ran a course just outside Mexico City this month for 18 journalists living and working here.

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Photo-blogging swine flu

Photo-blogging swine flu

| April 29, 2009 | Comments (0)

Deanna Dent is an American photographer currently in Mexico City documenting what’s going on at ground level.

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Photojournalism show explains 2008 in Mexico

Photojournalism show explains 2008 in Mexico

| March 10, 2009 | Comments (0)

Mexico City’s Museo de la Ciudad is playing host to a photojournalism exhibition — Expofotoperiodismo — that features nearly 50 photos from 2008.

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Photo exhibition rewards Mexican artists

Photo exhibition rewards Mexican artists

| February 25, 2009 | Comments (0)

Albinos in Mexico and the “human tragedy” of Mexican society were focuses of the winning entries in one the country’s longest-running photography competitions, the results of which are now on display in Mexico City’s impressive Centro de Imagen.

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Video: Photographer takes Mexico City’s portrait

Video: Photographer takes Mexico City’s portrait

| February 13, 2009 | Comments (0)

A lion cub, a naked girl and a Mexican pop star were just some of the guests at the Yautepec Gallery in Mexico City’s Roma neighborhood on a night in late January. They and a healthy share of Mexico’s young hipsters were there for the opening of New York-based photographer Noah Sheldon’s portrait studio project.

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Video: Youth protest against bullfighting in Mexico City

Video: Youth protest against bullfighting in Mexico City

| February 2, 2009 | Comments (0)

Young animal rights activists took to the streets in central Mexico City on Sunday in protest against the hundreds of bullfights that take place here in Mexico.

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David LaChapelle makes Mexican debut

David LaChapelle makes Mexican debut

| January 29, 2009 | Comments (0)

David LaChapelle, the surrealist photographer, launched his first-ever show in Mexico City last night in a media scrum that resembled one of his chaotic images.

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Photography show portrays a day in Mexico's Chapultepec Park

Photography show portrays a day in Mexico's Chapultepec Park

| December 16, 2008 | Comments (1)

A photography exhibition on the fence of Mexico City’s massive Chapultepec Park reflects the importance of the public space in the lives of Mexicans.

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Dia de los Muertos, Panteon Frances de la Piedad

Dia de los Muertos, Panteon Frances de la Piedad

| November 1, 2008 | Comments (0)

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In Photos: Dia de los Muertos in Mexico City's Zocalo

In Photos: Dia de los Muertos in Mexico City's Zocalo

| October 31, 2008 | Comments (1)

This weekend Mexico celebrates one of its most popular festivals – Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.

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Photographer documents Mara Salvatrucha in prison

Photographer documents Mara Salvatrucha in prison

| October 30, 2008 | Comments (4)

The intricate tattoos on the faces, chests, arms and legs of members of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha gangs of Los Angeles and Central America are on display this month in downtown Mexico City.

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Grasshoppers on guard in Mexico City

Grasshoppers on guard in Mexico City

| October 29, 2008 | Comments (1)

Walking through Bosque de Chapultepec this morning, I did what I’ve been meaning to do for months – I took a shot of one of the many chapulines that stand guard around Mexico City’s biggest park.

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Activists arrested for the murder of Brad Will

Activists arrested for the murder of Brad Will

| October 20, 2008 | Comments (2)

Two members of the protest movement that activist and videographer Brad Will was covering when he was shot dead more than two years ago have been arrested in connection with his murder.

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Marchers remember the dead of October 2nd 1968

Marchers remember the dead of October 2nd 1968

| October 2, 2008 | Comments (0)

Hundreds of students and other Mexicans congregated on Mexico City’s Paseo de la Reforma, Thursday at 3pm, to march in memory of the hundreds who died that night 40 years ago.

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In Photos: Police torture, Stormtroopers and the next Mexican Revolution

In Photos: Police torture, Stormtroopers and the next Mexican Revolution

| October 2, 2008 | Comments (0)

Coyoacan is a sleepy (at least for Mexico City), leafy and green middle class suburb in the south of Distrito Federal, home to many of the capital’s intellectuals and politicians. Strolling along one its main drags – Avenida Mexico – is some of DF’s graffiti.

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Slideshow: Immigration explored as a concept in Mexico City exhibition

Slideshow: Immigration explored as a concept in Mexico City exhibition

| August 11, 2008 | Comments (0)

The video and photography exhibition Laberinto de Miradas – Labyrinth of Glances – that opened in Mexico City last month in the Cultural Center of Spain – features the kind of images that we are used to seeing in relation to immigration.

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Tijuana: Reflections on the Border

Tijuana: Reflections on the Border

| July 21, 2008 | Comments (1)

“TJ? Really?” was the response from most people last week when they learned I was heading down south of San Diego for a research trip.

They were right to be cautious. I live in Mexico City — one of the biggest, baddest towns around — but still gave Tijuana a second thought. The world’s most famous border city has been getting some bad press of late due to the drug-related violence playing out on its streets.

But what struck me more during my brief trip was the border itself and how it is littered with evidence of its own casualties and conflicts, past and present. The wall is at the center of the current national debate on immigration, and I wanted to see it for myself.

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