Your photographs could be used by drug dealers
by Monica Alcazar-Duarte
Photographs: Monica Alcazar-Duarte
Text: Monica Alcazar-Duarte
Publisher: self published
Pictures: 96
Price: 1500 €
The title for this series comes from a conversation I had with a soldier while asking for permission to take his photograph. The soldier’s answer summarized a sense of paranoia with which people in Mexico cope everyday of their lives.
This project started as my attempt to test the charged image that we hold of Mexico today via mainstream media and popular culture. It evolved into a photographing of the personal experience and qualities that shaped my interpretation of the place.
Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo is referred to as if it is a single place, but they are two neighbouring towns on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. A tourist destination, mainly for Mexicans, Ixtapa is the spic-and-span big hotel town with all of its public services in place, while Zihuatanejo is where the majority of those who work in Ixtapa live. The government is attempting to re-brand tourist destinations by increasing security in these areas. The irony is that this “bubble-wrapping” , in combination with the violence present just below the surface, manifests as an ambiguity and tension that floats in the air.
The photobook showcases 96 photographs. Its four way opening overlays the images making almost 350 possible different image configurations — an indication of the complex juxtapositions of everyday life in Mexico.
- Monica Alcazar-Duarte
The book has been acquired for the artist book collections at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, Yale and the Joan Flasch Collection at The Arts Institute of Chicago.
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Your photographs could be used by drug dealers
by Monica Alcazar-Duarte
Photographs: Monica Alcazar-Duarte
Text: Monica Alcazar-Duarte
Publisher: self published
Pictures: 96
Price: 1500 €
The title for this series comes from a conversation I had with a soldier while asking for permission to take his photograph. The soldier’s answer summarized a sense of paranoia with which people in Mexico cope everyday of their lives.
This project started as my attempt to test the charged image that we hold of Mexico today via mainstream media and popular culture. It evolved into a photographing of the personal experience and qualities that shaped my interpretation of the place.
Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo is referred to as if it is a single place, but they are two neighbouring towns on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. A tourist destination, mainly for Mexicans, Ixtapa is the spic-and-span big hotel town with all of its public services in place, while Zihuatanejo is where the majority of those who work in Ixtapa live. The government is attempting to re-brand tourist destinations by increasing security in these areas. The irony is that this “bubble-wrapping” , in combination with the violence present just below the surface, manifests as an ambiguity and tension that floats in the air.
The photobook showcases 96 photographs. Its four way opening overlays the images making almost 350 possible different image configurations — an indication of the complex juxtapositions of everyday life in Mexico.
- Monica Alcazar-Duarte
The book has been acquired for the artist book collections at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, Yale and the Joan Flasch Collection at The Arts Institute of Chicago.
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Your photographs could be used by drug dealers
by Monica Alcazar-Duarte
Photographs: Monica Alcazar-Duarte
Text: Monica Alcazar-Duarte
Publisher: self published
Pictures: 96
Price: 1500 €
The title for this series comes from a conversation I had with a soldier while asking for permission to take his photograph. The soldier’s answer summarized a sense of paranoia with which people in Mexico cope everyday of their lives.
This project started as my attempt to test the charged image that we hold of Mexico today via mainstream media and popular culture. It evolved into a photographing of the personal experience and qualities that shaped my interpretation of the place.
Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo is referred to as if it is a single place, but they are two neighbouring towns on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. A tourist destination, mainly for Mexicans, Ixtapa is the spic-and-span big hotel town with all of its public services in place, while Zihuatanejo is where the majority of those who work in Ixtapa live. The government is attempting to re-brand tourist destinations by increasing security in these areas. The irony is that this “bubble-wrapping” , in combination with the violence present just below the surface, manifests as an ambiguity and tension that floats in the air.
The photobook showcases 96 photographs. Its four way opening overlays the images making almost 350 possible different image configurations — an indication of the complex juxtapositions of everyday life in Mexico.
- Monica Alcazar-Duarte
The book has been acquired for the artist book collections at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, Yale and the Joan Flasch Collection at The Arts Institute of Chicago.
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