Mexico
Delirious Mexico
"Destrozado, pero vivo, sucio, mal vestido pero lleno de amor.
En el camino de los perros, allí donde no quiere ir nadie."
Roberto Bolaño, Los Perros Románticos
"Si he de Vivir
Que sea sin Timón y en el Delirio"
Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, Jeta de Santo
"An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom"
Charles Baudelaire, The Journey, The Flowers of Evil
This portfolio was started in January 2010 while traveling within Mexico, mainly in Mexico City, Guanajuato, San Luis de Potosí, and Xilitla. For reasons not responding to logic I got a second-hand Leica and started to photograph in black and white film. As Andre Breton once said, Mexico is the most surreal country in the world; all around Mexico I was surprised to still encounter situations that reminded me of the uncanny mood found in the films of Luis Buñuel and in the paintings of Frida Kahlo.
I shot several rolls a day, walking through the cities, feeling somehow like a savage detective within a narrative created by Roberto Bolaño, not knowing exactly what would come out of the images… No wonder that the place that Buñuel chose as his home would end up throwing back at me a delirious dream. I wanted to go back to that dream and continue to photograph it. I returned two years later.
More 2012 photographs...Coming Soon:
Oaxaca de Juarez, Ocotlán, Tlacolula, Mitla, Juchitán, Tehuantepec,
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Palenque, Chamula, Guadalajara and D.F.
"Destrozado, pero vivo, sucio, mal vestido pero lleno de amor.
En el camino de los perros, allí donde no quiere ir nadie."
Roberto Bolaño, Los Perros Románticos
"Si he de Vivir
Que sea sin Timón y en el Delirio"
Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, Jeta de Santo
"An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom"
Charles Baudelaire, The Journey, The Flowers of Evil
This portfolio was started in January 2010 while traveling within Mexico, mainly in Mexico City, Guanajuato, San Luis de Potosí, and Xilitla. For reasons not responding to logic I got a second-hand Leica and started to photograph in black and white film. As Andre Breton once said, Mexico is the most surreal country in the world; all around Mexico I was surprised to still encounter situations that reminded me of the uncanny mood found in the films of Luis Buñuel and in the paintings of Frida Kahlo.
I shot several rolls a day, walking through the cities, feeling somehow like a savage detective within a narrative created by Roberto Bolaño, not knowing exactly what would come out of the images… No wonder that the place that Buñuel chose as his home would end up throwing back at me a delirious dream. I wanted to go back to that dream and continue to photograph it. I returned two years later.
More 2012 photographs...Coming Soon:
Oaxaca de Juarez, Ocotlán, Tlacolula, Mitla, Juchitán, Tehuantepec,
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Palenque, Chamula, Guadalajara and D.F.
