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People of sub-Saharan African descent have lived in what is today Mexico since the early days of Spanish colonization. . . . Today there are only a handful of communities left with large Black Mexican populations. The Costa Chica, the coastal region of southern Guerrero and northern Oaxaca, boasts the greatest number. . . . My experience in Juárez and the relative scarcity of information about Mexico’s Black communities made me curious to visit the Costa Chica myself. So a few years later I did. I ended up staying there for six months, forming friendships and documenting the residents’ daily life. This is a selection of photos from my time there.
January 2024A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.
December 2023A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.
November 2023A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.
October 2023One history that especially fascinates me is The Sun’s. On the wall of my office is a calendar the magazine sent to subscribers — all forty or so of them — at the beginning of 1977. It’s outdated and nonfunctional, but I hung it there because of its . . . well, grooviness. I like the horoscope-adjacent artwork and the handmade feel. It’s very much a product of its time, the kind of thing my brother would call “crunchy.”
By Derek AskeySeptember 2023A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.
September 2023A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.
August 2023Monica Jane Frisell and Adam Scher have been traveling the U.S. in their “nomadic photo ark” . . . . attempting to find evidence of what we share by making large-format portraits of Americans from different states and recording short audio interviews with them.
By Adam ScherJuly 2023A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.
July 2023A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.
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