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.