Pablo Ortiz Monasterio on Mexican Portraits (Video)

Pablo Ortiz Monasterio discusses the process of selecting and sequencing photographs to tell a history of Mexico.

Mexican Portraits, co-published by Aperture and Fundación Televisa, includes more than 350 portraits by over eighty anonymous and well-known photographers, including Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Agustín V. Casasola, Romualdo García, Graciela Iturbide, and Enrique Metinides. In this short video, Mexican Portraits photographer and editor Pablo Ortiz Monasterio discusses the process of selecting and sequencing the photographs to tell a history of Mexico, and reflects on Mexican identity, both individual and collective.

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Mexican Portraits is now available.