Mexico
Mexico was in the throes of structural adjustment policies during rapid economic development in the year 2000. This is a record of a country in-flux but also steeped in traditional cultures. Mexican culture was demonstrative of the challenges from adjusting to globalization while preserving indigenous, and ironically, colonial culture, as well. Indigenous groups adopted the Catholicism of missionaries, and colonists prior, while preserving their heritage through contemporary organizational structures. I’ve returned numerous times to experience the deep culture of the place.
Migrant coffee pickers from Guatemala carry raw coffee from the hillside near Rancho Bonito, Chiapas, Mexico in February 2000.
Collection of dry coffee beans in Rancho Bonito, Chiapas, Mexico in February 2000.
Portrait of coffee farmer Mario Solis Velasquez, 56 years old, in Rancho Bonito, Chiapas, Mexico in February 2000. Mario was member of the ISMAM (Indigenes de la Sierra Madre de Motozintla) coffee cooperative for seven years when photographed.
Alicia, 29, holds her baby in front of their home in Rancho Bonito, Chiapas, Mexico in February 2000. She is the wife of a coffee farmer and member of the ISMAM (Indigenes de la Sierra Madre de Motozintla) coffee cooperative.
Members of ISMAM (Indigenes de la Sierra Madre de Motozintla) travel by truck to a community meeting in Chiapas, Mexico in February 2000.
A beer is poured as the bullfighter and bull face-off in Mexico City, Mexico in 2000.
Family in their field in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2000.
Making pork feed in Pozos, Mexico in 2000.
Girls play in Taxco, Mexico in 2000.
Administrators of UNAM in Mexico City, Mexico, including rector Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez (center), present a resolution to the 1999-2000 strike in January 2000.
A confrontation near UNAM, the national university, during a strike in Mexico City, Mexico in 2000.
Boys play in the street in Chiapas, Mexico in 2000.
Activists and Zapatistas rest after marching on International Women's Day in Chiapas, Mexico in 2000.
Empty vendor stalls and restaurants in Tijuana, Mexico on January 7, 2012.
Goat in the city of Tulum on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico on December 28, 2013.
Beach in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico on December 28, 2013.
Journal entry from 2000.