In the wrong place at the wrong time

  • Dates
    2020 - 2020
  • Author
  • Topics Social Issues, Contemporary Issues, Editorial
  • Locations Jalisco, Mexico

In the wrong place at the wrong time A man like anyone else, good, drunkard, according to his wife, was sitting on a bench in the main square of his town in the wrong place at the wrong time, when two rival drug gangs confronted each other, taking by accident his life

I took these pictures in a place where traditions from a century ago are preserved, as it is the case with this burial documented by this visual story throughout the process in the family home of the deceased.

Traditions in the most remote areas refuse to disappear altogether, undergoing minor adaptations and alterations to the uses and customs of the place and the family.

Burials continue to differentiate alive and dead even after the demise. The funeral is ultimately a family representation of death with hidden superstitions and sometimes not so much.

The last meeting of the innermost family for the deceased to embark thereafter on the journey to ultimate solitude. There is a solemn respect, silence and tears and an occasional hidden and fleeting laugh.

© Eduardo Moreno - The reed duffel bag, the cempasúchil flower and the crying of the women of the house
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The reed duffel bag, the cempasúchil flower and the crying of the women of the house

© Eduardo Moreno - Receiving the body and waiting for a justice that will never come.
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Receiving the body and waiting for a justice that will never come.

© Eduardo Moreno - Tequila for the dead. Tequila for the pain
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Tequila for the dead. Tequila for the pain

© Eduardo Moreno - Walking with the deceased. A road of sorrow, while waiting for a justice that will never come
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Walking with the deceased. A road of sorrow, while waiting for a justice that will never come

© Eduardo Moreno - Flowers around to bring some joy and color to a sad ancestral face
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Flowers around to bring some joy and color to a sad ancestral face

© Eduardo Moreno - One last visit to what was his dwelling in life
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One last visit to what was his dwelling in life

© Eduardo Moreno - Between stones, an arch of trees and adobe houses, the road to reality
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Between stones, an arch of trees and adobe houses, the road to reality

© Eduardo Moreno - The last visit to the house of the deceased
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The last visit to the house of the deceased

© Eduardo Moreno - At the end of the rough road, I recalled the dead remain lonely and sad
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At the end of the rough road, I recalled the dead remain lonely and sad

© Eduardo Moreno - The bow on the door, an unequivocal symbol of death in the house
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The bow on the door, an unequivocal symbol of death in the house

© Eduardo Moreno - Resigned in the place between corn husks and a presence in black
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Resigned in the place between corn husks and a presence in black

© Eduardo Moreno - Waiting for the dead body to arrive to the house
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Waiting for the dead body to arrive to the house

© Eduardo Moreno - Accompanying the procession with a cat on the main entrance
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Accompanying the procession with a cat on the main entrance

© Eduardo Moreno - Dead and lonely in what in the kitchen of the house with a Brik oven and the smoke of the tortillas preparation
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Dead and lonely in what in the kitchen of the house with a Brik oven and the smoke of the tortillas preparation

© Eduardo Moreno - A house in ruins, an orchard in abandonment and a family in prayers and imploration for the parent lost.
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A house in ruins, an orchard in abandonment and a family in prayers and imploration for the parent lost.

© Eduardo Moreno - the dilapidated house of the deceased and his daughter
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the dilapidated house of the deceased and his daughter

© Eduardo Moreno - The dog taking care of his dead master and the man in the hat accompanying him.
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The dog taking care of his dead master and the man in the hat accompanying him.

© Eduardo Moreno - A last drink in the honor of the 'compadre' dead
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A last drink in the honor of the 'compadre' dead

© Eduardo Moreno - Marching with sad face and bug sorrow in the paved street
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Marching with sad face and bug sorrow in the paved street

© Eduardo Moreno - The hands of the country man linked by hands, cries and a rosary
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The hands of the country man linked by hands, cries and a rosary

In the wrong place at the wrong time by Eduardo Moreno

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