Magnum Photos
Luciérnagas, the latest book from Yael Martínez (@yaelmtzv), serves as a meditation on disappearance and resilience in Mexico by shining light on trauma, memory and hope through transformation. Published by @thisbookistrue, the book is an intimate but sprawling visual essay that contends with the pervasive violence that has gripped Mexico for decades, and the irreparable wounds and voids left behind by people who have been forcibly disappeared. In 2019, Martínez began physically intervening in his photographs by piercing the prints and backlighting them, decorating them with “illuminations” that symbolically attempt to deal with trauma through the possibility of its transmutation: “I was trying to find hope,” he explains. “To show how people in these territories resist.” 🔗 Read more at the link in the @magnumphotos bio. PHOTOS: (1) The hand of a peasant and the "chapulin," the knives to grate opium gum, handcrafted by poppy farmers. Guerrero, Mexico. 2021. (2) A Na Savi elder on the Cerro de la Garza. For the Na Savi people, elders are respected since they contain wisdom and connection with our Mother Earth. Every December 31, the Na Savi indigenous communities climb the Cerro de la Garza to perform rituals that commemorate the end and beginning of a cycle. Guerrero, Mexico. 2021. (3) A pilgrimage carries the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Every year on December 12, millions of pilgrims embark on a journey to visit the Virgin at the Basilica of Guadalupe. Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico. 2016. (4) Offerings to San Miguel in the Hill of the Maiz in the Nahua community of Xalpatlahuac. Guerrero, Mexico. 2022. (5) Itzel at home. Guerrero, Mexico. 2023. (6) Ania Fernandez at her house. She has one missing family member. Guerrero, Mexico. 2019. © Yael Martínez / Magnum Photos
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