By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Most tourists and visitors to Mexico likely assume laws and customs are similar in here to their home countries. So what’s legal and what’s not when taking pictures or shooting video, especially in the context of younger generations documenting every move in life? The rules of the game are very different in Mexico when compared,
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By SHERRY SPITSNAUGLE Motorcycles gunned their engines on a busy street of Todos Santos, in Mexico’s coastal state of Baja California Sur, as I bit into a juicy pork taco smothered in tomatillo, followed by a healthy swig of icy Pacifico beer. A friend and I sat at a cardboard table on the small patio of Tacos Isaac, just yards
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Museum of Photographic Archives (MAF) on Friday, May 13, opened an exhibit of works by the late French-Hungarian photographer Nadja Massün, who personally prepared the montage before passing away a few days before its opening. The exhibition contains 50 images of indigenous communities in Mexico and abroad taken by Massün over a 20-year
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The International Women’s Club of Mexico City (IWC) held a member-wide photography competition, with the winners announced during the club’s annual general meeting on Wednesday, March 17. The theme of the competition, which was organized by IWC vice president for membership Alex McCoid, was the capital city’s beautiful jacaranda trees, currently in full bloom.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A new exhibit titled “Tres por Tres, Afromexicanos en Guerrero, Veracruz y Coahuila” (¨Three-by-Three: Afro-Mexicans in Guerrero, Veracruz and Coahuila”) is slated to open on Thursday, Aug. 8, at the Tlaxcala Regional Museum. The exhibit, composed of 18 photographs by three different photographers, shows how this marginalized community in Mexico has fought for its
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By THE PULSE NEWS STAFF An exhibit of this year’s winners of FOCO MX, Mexico’s most important photographic competition, is due to open at the Foto Museo Cuatro Caminos on Saturday, May 12. This year’s exhibit will include winning works by more than 50 Mexican artists who participated in the 2017 Concurso de Fotografía Contemporánea de México, one of the largest number
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF An intimate portrayal of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo as seen through 54 pictures taken by Hungarian photographer Nickolas Muray is now on display inside the art gallery of the Palacio Municipal in Puebla. This extraordinary collection of black-and-white and color portraits of the artist, taken over a 10-year period between 1937 and
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The collection on display at the National Museum of Cultures focuses on some of his lesser-known works, including images he took after the devastating 1985 earthquake in Mexico City
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