Mexico: the desire that corrupts

The Mexican artist and engraver Orlando Velázquez seeks to portray the moment in which the bond that connected man with his habitat was broken. “The earth is the beginning and the end of all things,” he says wistfully. He regrets that, as a result of conflicts such as...

Afro-Mexicans: we are not folklore

Hugo Arellanes was bothered by something every time anthropologists, photographers and filmmakers visited his native Costa Chica. For years he could not put in words what it was. Until he managed to see it from a distance, at the university. There he concludes:...

The war on drugs also pollutes

When photographer Gena Steffens speaks with some authority, she gets the feeling that they think she is “harmless.” And that opens doors. Thus, she managed, for example, to convince the Colombian military to fly with them in their anti-drug campaigns in...