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Mexico
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Métamorphe — From Blackletter to Cholo
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceGothic script was never meant to travel. It was built for Northern European scribes, carried to Spain, then loaded onto ships — and once it reached Mesoamerica it stopped behaving like a European alphabet. Blackletter absorbed whatever it landed in: colonial signage, devotional imagery, tattoo culture, the walls of Mexico City and the barrios of […]
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La Chamba — Work, Travel & the Tourist’s Gaze
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceLa Chamba is what work is called across much of Latin America: the job, the hustle, the thing that fills the day and quietly organises everything around it — streets, houses, landscapes, and the very places tourism turns into scenery. Dorian André spent seven months between Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua photographing exactly that. A graphic […]