With the bakers

In late 2015 my wife and I were invited to join a friend and his wife --Juan and Esther-- on a two-hour excursion outside Mexico City in San Rafael Atlixco. For days he nostalgically took us on a tour down memory lane detailing his family history and upbringing against the backdrop a place that had once been very commercially active in the 20th Century; it had been the town's golden century, that is until the French operation went belly up. 

Knowing my obsession for meeting people and documenting life, Juan took me to meet the owners of a local bakery walking distance from his spacious and recently renovated weekend home.  

Luis Arcadio De Jesus

Born and raised in New York State. Luis Arcadio De Jesus has been residing in Mexico City as of the year 2000. His interest in photography began at an early age, but did not begin to take root until his teens. In 2006 Luis began to take his photography more seriously. His work has been utilized in a variety of media by the likes of Discovery, Random House, Oxford University Press, The New Yorker Magazine, The University of Indiana, to name a few. Most of his work is focused on his experiences in Mexico and his travels back to his native home of the United States.

https://about.me/luisadejesusr
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