The colors of Mexican Sundays

My Photo scholarship 2010 entry

Mexico | Friday, October 15, 2010 | 5 photos

Who doesn’t love multicolored Sundays? Mexico is a country full of colors, flavors, traditions and contrasts. Going out every Sunday to the main “placita” (square) next to the major church, is a way of life for Mexicans. It’s like a party for the eyes, is the most vivid day of the week, and you will find a world with too many things to see, smell, touch, try and love.

Since I was a kid I used to go there already expecting to eat purple cotton candy, chase the bubbles and scare the pigeons. However I had traveled to a lot of places in the world, when I return to my roots I feel fascinated just to sit down in a bench and observe, analyze and capture everything that is happening there. Imagine! Alive music, people, balloon and bubble vendors, fortune tellers, coffee shops, people cleaning shoes in the old way, handmade ice creams, indigenous people selling their handcrafted dolls, ceramics and clothes; stands with different food….an alive town…

Those moments can be frozen through photography, life is composed of instants that you will remember as fragments of those memories, I’m not a professional but I like to capture a magic statement of existence, since a kid I had my plastic camera and I loved to take all kind of pictures. Now I love urban portraits.

I have a coming project and I need hands on learning, I want to absorb everything I can receive from a mentor, this coming March 2011 I will go to 5 different indigenous communities and make free photo workshops for kids, teach them what I know and prepare exhibitions of their work, my goal is to bring them a different activity to their routine, make them happy and show them another part of life