Posts from the ‘mexico’ Category
PUERTO ANGEL – Oaxaca, Mexico
There is not much in the quiet hamlet of Puerto Angel, near Pochutla, Mexico. A quiet, crystal-clear bay, a sandy beach dotted with elegant fishing boats. And a large concrete pier from which to take all the views in…
Hey, Amigos, Raton Mickey is in town!
The smile is the real life-saver.
Lean-to, with view.
And it’s warm, too.
At peace, together.
At peace even while at work.
Pier to peer.
Spot the blowfish?
Always weird when something dead looks at you.
View from the road.
Off to make some tacos.
There may not be much in Puerto Angel. But there is light and there is life. As far as this street photographer is concerned, there is everything that really matters, in Puerto Angel.
Hope you enjoyed.
Alessandro Ciapanna
SAN CRISTOBAL – of kids and beasts
Contemporary monochrome street photography from a southern Mexican city. With an eye to the odd and the other to the yucky.
Meanwhile, just next door… it’s the amazing toothy Superman-posing embalmed flying veal. Of all places, at the front door of a restaurant. Bon appetit!
Want in? Just bang the bull knocker!
Good to the bone.
At the sight of the camera, the bold kid yelled “No!”, and the meek one “Si!” Si it was.
Sure, i’ll watch your llama. But i’m gonna need a wheelbarrow…
Learning to fly.
Let’s trust this able-handed seventeen-year-old taylor to stitch it all together.
All pictures taken in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. A place, a people to love. No matter what they do to their cows…
Hope you enjoyed,
Alessandro Ciapanna
SAN CRISTOBAL – street photography
San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. A monochrome street photo essay.
Trash picker-upper. And, judging from the hat, putter-onner.
Dragging the kids home in the outer, unpaved part of town.
Lookin’ up: plastic banner recycled as tarp after the election.
A little rough around the edges. Looks like a river, but doesn’t smell like one.
Mountain air and southern sun conspire to provide crisp, contrasty light.
Stepping on strangely striped stairs.
Photofinish: food for thought. Faded poster says “The camera does not make the photographer.”
Whether or not a camera makes a photographer could be argued at length. All i can say is a camera is a pretty useful thing to have if and when we wish to make a photograph out of the world around us.
Hope you enjoyed.
Alessandro Ciapanna
STREET ART – a photo essay from Mexico
Stencils, stickers, paint, chalk, posters. Whatever it takes to experess oneself.
And maybe even to make a point. Pictures taken in Mexico.
Steal a sigh from me, Mexico City.
A revolution in each kiss, stencil, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
Spray paint art, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
Political stencils, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
Stencil, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
Mixed media on glass, Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico.
Mixed media on wall, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
Mixed media on wall, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
A few – two, i think – are actually reposts of photographs that can be found in other blog entries. I just wanted all these picture grouped under a single heading.
Thank you for visiting,
Alessandro Ciapanna
ABSTRACTA – photography from Mexico
Odd shapes, forms, patterns and what-nots from the south of Mexico.
Geko in a paper lamp, Zipolite, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Twisted, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
Brooms, market, Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
Plastic pipes, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
Shadow on a wall, Zipolite, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Palm frond shadow, Zipolite, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Seaweed and sand on rocks, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
Alessandro Ciapanna
