Using a special technique, this photographer makes luminous images of Mexico’s comunidades originárias
please to gaze directly into his camera, María José Prudente was at the Brooklyn church she uses as a recording studio. She migrated north from the Mexican state of Guerrero and now broadcasts, to New York and beyond, in Tu’un Savi, one of the languages of the Mixtec people. Women’s rights feature heavily in her programs. She also translates in court—Tu’un Savi, Spanish, English.
The people he photographed for this project, even those now relocated to new surroundings, have legal citizenship in Mexico but ancestral citizenship in ancient states that exist today in language, food, faith, stories passed down over the centuries, and collective understandings of the boundaries that define the world. Meeting originárias like Prudente, Martínez says, forced him to reconsider his ideas about himself: the Indigenous part, the European part, the African part.
A bouquet of flowers commemorates Sierra’s life. “What I think is most beautiful about each piece is that the images emanate light, like this idea of transformation,” says Martínez.Felipa García Reyes, a grandmother, plants corn and beans in the Guerrero village of Huehuetepec. Indigenous families here depend on crops of corn, beans, and squash for food, and everyone—from the young to elders— pitches in.“I started this project as an essay on resilience,” Martínez says.
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