Countdown
Cleansing ceremony at the Templo Mayor -Zocalo de la Ciudad de Mexico-- circa 2008.
An image made in 2008 when the Templo Mayor area was characterised --in part-- by the presence of shaman offering their services right beside the catholic temple (Situated behind the lady on the left.).
In the background a clock with a countdown to Mexico's 2010 bicentennial celebration of its independence from Spain.
Saturday Ride
Transporte público en el D.F.
Young lady riding a public eco bike that have been established as part of Mexico City's urban transit system.
Urban Minion
Trabajador municipal en la Delegación Coyoacán - Ciudad de México.
Mexico City municipal worker.
Regañado
Dog tied to a concrete seat in front of a restaurant in Mexico City.
I was thinking today about thinking. This cognitive process does not come easily to our species. We are used to letting others we call "experts" do all the complex research, analysis, and comparison of texts, ideas and what have you. We are accustomed to having others do all the repackaging of ideas and knowledge for us. Just how much of what we think we know is the sum of our own thinking and understanding or a collection of ideas and information we simply regurgitate at will?
Nobody Sees, Nobody Listens
Miembros de los 400 Pueblos protestan en el Centro Historico de la Ciuadad de Mexico.
Members of the 400 Pueblos protesting in downtown Mexico City in April of 2015.
Smiles and Lipstick
Readying up for photo at Chapultepec Park, Mexico City.
A couple at Chapultepec Forest a moment before posing for a photo by photographers taking the traditional horse and charro hat image in November of this year.
Street Tog Alex Coghe
Alex Coghe, street tog of Mexico City.
Street photographer Alex Coghe arrived from Rome, Italy --stayed and eventually married a Mexican-- about nine years ago. We met sometime before via Flickr and became acquainted with each other's work. This image was made in April of this year during one of several photo walks we've had on several occasions this year --just got back from another meet this Saturday. It's always a pleasure to touch base and explore the streets of Mexico City updating each other on our adventurous experiences as both photographers and foreigners in Mexico City.
What Do You See?
Too see with your eyes, to understand with your mind.
An everyday cliché commands us not to judge a book by its cover, but what we wear has a way of telling volumes. More accurately, how we wear it may be key; however, this is not what this blog post is about. It's just an image taken on my way home one afternoon on one of Mexico City's subway lines. Perception is not what we see with our eyes, it's what we interpret with our minds.
em·brace əmˈbrās/
From this weekend while roaming downtown, Mexico City. A cliché moment, perhaps, but nonetheless meaningful to human experience. Margaret Meade once stated that "one of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night." It's so true, so descriptive --in part-- of the human condition.
"One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night." -- Margaret Meade
Sombras
Chasing light and shadows in Mexico City's historic downtown area. A lot has changed since I first came to know this area. I worked here for five years. Though I don't commute into the area everyday as I did then, much of my photography is executed in this very exciting niche of this vast urban space.
Morning Push
Sanitation worker chugs along Cafetales Ave. in the Coyoacan municipality of Mexico City.
Morning push for a sanitation worker in the southern end of Mexico City.