Mexico

With a poem by Octavio Paz. Texts in French and Spanish.

216 pages - Hardcover
Editions Xavier Barral, 2016
Format: 23 x 28.5 cm

Between 1981 and 2003, Mark Cohen takes several trips to Mexico. Fascinated by this country he calls ‘surrealist’, he wanders with his camera, without any anthropological nor social focus, in the streets of Mexico, Merida and Oaxaca.

For a split-second, Mark Cohen comes very close to his subjects whom he captures dazzled by the artificial light of the flash. His black and white photographs, taken at arm’s length, most of the time without aiming, pick up pieces of gestures, postures and bodies. From these images emerge a nervous energy and an everyday strangeness.