The colors of Mexican Sundays https://journals.worldnomads.com/fabitulip/ Sun, 5 Apr 2026 04:54:14 GMT World Nomads Adventures I don’t belong to any religious order, but if you had had the fortune to been born in a family that loves you, however the economical situation, you are blessed. This story takes place in a nuns’ house in the city of Morelia, Mexico. These girls since they were babies they were abandoned in an orphanage, and when the girls turn the age of 10 they are sent to different congregations so they can be protected and raised with special attention. A daily routine for these girls is the same until they turn 16, then they need to jump into real life, get a job and become independent. It was hard for me to take these pictures, the girls are protected, so the nuns didn´t allow me at the beginning, but after telling them my purpose they did. Since I return to my country (dec. 2010),I have been volunteering with them as an art teacher and the more that I know each girl, my anxiety to help them grows. With these pictures I want to show to the world that this kind of situation exists around us and isn’t particularly from a country, is a worldwide situation, so my intention is to make a call to all the people to do one's bit. I like to combine photography with cultural situations, human and animal rights, etc. from all around the world, and with this combination my goal is to give a big message through a simple image. Photography is one of my passions, and I would take this learning experience in order to observe and analyze more my environment and being concrete with my photo objectives. My free spirit had given me wonderful experiences, so to learn from one the bests mentors, would be the first step to get into bigger photography projects in order to create something to make the people think and act. https://journals.worldnomads.com/fabitulip/photos/29641/Mexico/My-Photo-scholarship-2011-entry Travel Mexico fabitulip https://journals.worldnomads.com/fabitulip/photos/29641/Mexico/My-Photo-scholarship-2011-entry#comments https://journals.worldnomads.com/fabitulip/photos/29641/Mexico/My-Photo-scholarship-2011-entry Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:17:30 GMT 0 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 https://journals.worldnomads.com/fabitulip/photos/25251/Mexico/My-Photo-scholarship-2010-entry Travel Mexico fabitulip https://journals.worldnomads.com/fabitulip/photos/25251/Mexico/My-Photo-scholarship-2010-entry#comments https://journals.worldnomads.com/fabitulip/photos/25251/Mexico/My-Photo-scholarship-2010-entry Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:53:00 GMT 0