Marco Ugarte has been a photographer based in Mexico City for over 30 years. He covered the fireworks festival in nearby Tultepec for just the second time a week ago.
Residents push a giant paper-mache"torito" or bull stuffed with fireworks during a nighttime lighting of bull-shaped figures as part of the annual festival honoring Saint John of God, in Tultepec, Mexico, Friday, March 8, 2024. MEXICO CITY — Aiming to show the artisans’ passion and dedication for the dangerous art of making fireworks, Ugarte received training in safety and respect for the pyrotechnics before he focused his camera on the explosive party.
What I tried to show in the story is the makers’ devotion to what they love: their art, their patron saint, their craftsmanship, their bulls and the passion of their lives: the pyrotechnics. This photo summarizes all that in one image.First, I spent four days learning about the art and love that artisans have for pyrotechnics — and about the consequences of an explosion.
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