Day of the Dead 2008 Slide Show
Mexico’s famous obsession with death is celebrated with gusto each year on 1-2 November, The Day of the Dead, when families gather to remember lost loved ones, honour ancestral ties, or otherwise throw a roaring good fiesta in the local cemetery. This slideshow features images taken on Mexico City’s main plaza, the Zocalo, where an annual competition sees creative talents vying for recognition of their artistic work. Beautiful, spectacular or outright macabre, the competition features everything from traditional decorative altars called ofrendas to brightly coloured carpets of flower petals. Startling, vivid and replete with disarming black humour, these displays remind us that Lord Death is coming for us all. Why not have a party and laugh at him?
Mon, Aug 24, 2009
Animated slideshows, Mexico, Mexico City