Yolanda Andrade is an exquisite observer of Mexico City; she is today one of the most complex interpreters of popular culture. Her work gives life to the fictional qualities of the urban experience.
A story through images. It begins with the arrival. Two pilots see the tops of volcanoes barely poking through the clouds. Below is a city that once stood on a lake and now swims with people.
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.
The women’s prison is more than the place where society hides its errors. The prison warehouses hundreds of stories of abandonment, abuse, and unconditional love; stories echoed by woman after woman.
Over several years, Federico Gama documented the lives of cholos in Mexico City, a community descended from the Chicanos which embodies, like no other, the cross cultural fusion that distinguishes North America.
Rather than documenting underworlds or the marginalized, he decided to turn his lens on an unexplored territory for photography: the well-to-do. An essay that recounts the daily life of a group of friends in Mexico City
Mexico City faces tremendous water challenges—overexploitation of groundwater, poor water quality, subsidence, flooding, inadequate wastewater treatment, and health concerns about the reuse of wastewater in agriculture.
These photographs, taken by a number of photographers, document the period from the Cordobazo (1969) to the trial of the juntas (1985), which was defined by one of the bloodiest and most repressive dictatorships in Argentina’s history.
Adriana Lestido spent three years documenting the lives of four mothers and their daughters, entering the intimate, sacred space of their relationships. The work uses the tools of photojournalism, but is ultimately closer to art and poetry.
In the 1980s, after years of confinement and fear, the nights turned long, noisy, and excessive. The party arrived with the extremes of a long pent-up release.
Pepe Mateos works for Clarin, the largest-circulation newspaper in Argentina. In recent years he has photographed Buenos Aires and its political and social events with a critical eye and great sense of humor.
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.
Photographer Verónica Bellomo spent several months photographing her father, who owns a hog farm. Meat is a central part of the culture of Argentina.
We present two pieces on San Telmo and La Boca, Buenos Aires’ oldest neighborhoods. The stories were made for the Latin American edition of National Geographic magazine by Adrian Perez and Maria Mansilla.
This photo essay on a pair of tango dancers is part of a delightful book that was just released in Ecuador, Simple Stories: From Ecuador to Tierra del Fuego.