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Monda Photo, Mexico’s most respected photography collective, brings us an essay about the controversial Santa Muerte religious sect in the Tepito barrio, accompanied by an insightful article by Laura Emilia Pacheco.

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Natalia Ferreyra lives in Hidden City, a slum of Buenos Aires. There, a photography workshop, taught by the nonprofit organization Ph15, supports the use of art to understand and rewrite that world.

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The series of images, presented here in Nuestra Mirada, by member of the photography cooperative Sub is an exploration of the spiritual and physical margins of greater Buenos Aires, areas that suffer from ills common to all big cities in Latin America.