Mexico’s Copper Canyon is a land of expansive vistas, crumbling mule trails and endlessly convoluted mountain scenery. Comprised of six monumental canyons and a labyrinthine network of some 200 gorges, you can’t do much better for sheer size, scope and geological grandeur. These images were snapped at various locations: the mountain-town of Creel, the look-out of Divisadero, the rocky road to Batopilas and others.
Mexico’s north is a lesser visited land of sprawling cattle ranches and endless expansive vistas. Tempered by harsh deserts and mountains, el Norte has always been a wild and uncompromising destination, as well as an historic bastion of political resistance. These images were snapped at various locations: Chihuahua City, the Copper Canyon, Hidalgo del Parral, Alamos and others.
Juárez is a sprawling border town that’s infamous for its maquiladora assembly plants, savage drug cartel and brutal feminicides. Over 400 women have been butchered here in recent years, without much resolution or explanation either.
The town crumbles inwardly under its 3 million inhabitants, cross-border traffic and decaying industrial heart. Anger seeps out of the pavement. [...]
Chihuahua City is the capital of Chihuahua state – one of Mexico’s largest and most remote locales. The city lacks the colonial charm of the great historic capitals further south, but it does have an abundance of elegant 19th century architecture, mostly sponsored by the infamous dictator, Porfirio Diaz.
It’s also home to a plethora of [...]
Highway 45 to Parral is relentless. Flanked by wild mountains, plateaux, towers and table-tops, the road advances, on and on, on and on. Swirling flocks of black crows break the monotony. Pale white butterflies search vainly amid the yellow grasses, sand and parched scrubs. The tough little desert flowers give nothing away.
Sporadic pools of marshy [...]
In the north, highways and bus journeys lengthen inconsolably. Under these searing white hot horizons, everything is tempered by patience. Harsh, uncompromising, unrelenting patience. Finally the colonial city of Durango marks a break in my journey. I arrive just before midnight, having travelled 19 hours from the city of Morelia in Michoacán.
The city retains an [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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