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San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico
For the last 14 years, Oralia de la Cruz Domínguez, 35, pictured with her daughter Brenda, 1, has cultivated and sold plants in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico. Her stock includes interior and shade plants, and she also takes client requests to cultivate fruit and coffee plants.
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico
Juliana Ton (from left to right), Maria Pech and Fabiola Cepeda perform with a dance company made up of dancers from the Mexican states of Yucatán, Quintana Roo and Campeche in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico. Their choreography is a mix of Yucatecan Maya and colonial Spanish culture.
Mexico City, Mexico
Ángel González, 19 (left), and Javier Hernández, 25, climb a tower on a pyrotechnic castle, a wooden structure used for celebrations in Mexico City. When the gunpowder lights on the castles are ignited, they create the silhouette of a brilliantly lit castle for a few minutes. “Making pyrotechnic castles is what I like to do the most,” says González, who has worked on their construction for five years.
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico
On weekends and during vacations, María Cristina Garza dresses up as a quetzal bird, which is highly prized for its beautiful feathers, and poses for photos in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico. She charges tourists 20 Mexican pesos ($1) per photo. “There are very good days,” she says. “I make up to 500 pesos ($26) in tips in one afternoon.”
Mexico City, Mexico
Eztli Ukben performs in an adaption of the play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on the patio and stairs of a tenement building in Mexico City. The production is part of the VSS Dance Company project “Dance in Tenements,” which aims to make dance more accessible to the general public.
Mexico City, Mexico
Jesús Vázquez performs for tips in his Emiliano Zapata costume on Mexico City’s Francisco I. Madero Street. He painted his costume of this 1910 Mexican Revolution leader gold, giving him a unique look that attracts pedestrians. “What I like the most is that we are on a very important street in the city,” Vázquez says. “There is culture and knowledge and many people come to learn.”
Mexico City, Mexico
Jonathan Saucedo rests in one of the monumental letters that have been placed in the Parque de la Bombilla in southern Mexico City during a lunch break. The ‘D’ he sits in makes up part of the acronym “CDMX,” referring to the Spanish abbreviation of Mexico City. “I like these letters because you can rest easy inside them. I come to relax," Saucedo says.
Mexico City, Mexico
Silvia Alarcón, 72 (left), and Álvaro Martínez, 73, shop for Mexican Independence Day decorations, which takes place on September 16, in Mexico City’s bustling La Merced market area. It’s a yearly tradition for the couple, who use the red, white and green decorations in the colors of the country’s flag for festive family Independence Day parties.
Mexico City, Mexico
Miguel Ángel Xochicale chops vegetables for salsa early in the morning at a taco stand in Colonia Albert, Mexico City. The taco stand is open 24 hours a day and is located outside the Portales metro stop, which keeps customers coming at all hours.
Mexico City, Mexico
Zoé Rivera, 23, prepares to perform in “Esto no es sobre Baal,” a play put on by students majoring in acting at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Teatrales in Mexico City as part of their professional exam. “I wanted to learn about anatomy, and in the theater I have discovered it in a very physical and very poetic way, and I think it’s a perfect match,” Rivera says.
Mexico City, Mexico
Gloria Hidalgo removes thorns from roses before selling them in Mexico City. “I like dealing with people, giving them their bouquets to win over hearts or marriage proposals — and how sad it is when they are for funerals,” Hidalgo says.
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico
Fatima Sánchez (center) and other members of Tzunūn Tēnek, a traditional dance group, perform the dance “La Iguana” in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. The group is made up of local young men and women between the ages of 15 to 35 who participate to help revive the city’s traditional culture.
Monterrey, Mexico
Adán Alejandro cleans the premises of a public park, formerly a steel and iron foundry, in Monterrey, the capital of the Mexican state of Nuevo León.
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico
Aless Muñoz (left) and Isabel Araujo perform the parts of Elisa and Sara respectively in the premiere of the play “Cotton Candy” at the Patio Petul theater in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. The play focuses on themes of love and hardship as the two women reminisce about their experiences while baking desserts.
Suchiapa, Chiapas, Mexico
Antonio López, 65, participates in the Dance of Calalá, part of the Corpus Cristi Festival that originated here in the Suchiapa municipality of Chiapas, Mexico. He wears traditional clothing from the town of Chamula and carries leaves from a coyol palm tree to use as offerings.
Mexico City, Mexico
Jairo Nol Vásquez replaces old water valves in northern Mexico City. The valve-changing work started in September 2018, a year after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake in Mexico City caused serious damage to the underground valves.
Mexico City, Mexico
Lucio Rodríguez, left, repairs a metal curtain with his son, Julio Antonio Rodríguez, at their shop in Mexico City, Mexico. Their business is located in the city’s Centro Histórico. Many small shops in the area use metal curtains at their entrances, so work is never scarce for the pair.
Mexico City, Mexico
Merol, 33, performs a free show for people who pass by Kiosko Morisco, a gazebo in Mexico City, Mexico. The participants get a balloon after tossing a cloth ring in the air for Merol to catch. Merol, who prefers his stage name, seeks to spark the interest of people walking past. “We want to tell children to have fun — to grow up well and happy,” Merol says.
Mexico City, Mexico
Francisco Tecoatl, 40, performs a ritual cleansing with smoke and herbs in Mexico City’s Plazuela del Marqués. Tecoatl is a member of Calpulli Ze Mazatl, a civil society organization that preserves and promotes Aztec cultural traditions. Every Thursday to Sunday for the last 20 years, they have performed indigenous Aztec dances and rituals in alternating locations. After the dance ends, they offer cleansings to people passing by.
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico
Benito Ruiz Alvarez, a traditional doctor, or “i´lol” in the Tsotstil language, performs a healing for Josefa López Santis in San Cristóbal de las Casas, a city in Mexico’s Chiapas state. Ruiz Alvarez uses prayers, plants, candles, stones, incense and a traditional drink called posh as part of the ceremony. The facility is owned by the Organización de Médicos Indígenas del Estado de Chiapas, an organization of doctors and midwives with Tsotsil ancestry who preserve medicinal traditions, including midwifery, botany and bone setting.
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico
Yanine Santana, 20, works on a tattoo for Andrea Osorio, 25, at the second Expo Tatuaje Internacional, which took place from May 18-19 in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas state, Mexico. Santana is known for using sustainable materials in her work as a tattoo artist. She was one of over 100 tattoo artists from all over the world who participated in the exposition.
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico
José Luis Flores Velasco, a physiotherapist, gives a massage to Mariana Cameras at an alternative medicine fair in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico. Fair participants came to promote alternative therapies, like reiki, therapeutic massages, biomagnetism and magnets, and consuming natural products.
Aldama, Chiapas, Mexico
Margarita Santiz, 23, makes a cushion cover at her home in Aldama, a municipality in Chiapas, Mexico. Due to an ongoing conflict between Aldama and the nearby Chenalhó municipality, Santiz’s family can no longer harvest coffee, their original livelihood. Now, Santiz, her mother, and her 11 siblings each make two cushion covers a week and sell them for 160 Mexican pesos ($8.48) a piece.
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico
Members of the folk dance group, Mixcoacalli, perform at the annual Feria de la Primavera y de la Paz, or Spring and Peace Fair, at the Plaza 31 de Marzo, a park in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico. Dancers in the group range from 13 to 18 years old.