La última Ciudad

Graffiti, guns and grit… plus smiles. In a collection of black and white street photography, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio shows that even in the overpopulated, poverty-stricken capital, the city is still full of life. It’s the mixture of ruins and rubble that offers a complex image, at once hopeful and bleak. While the book presents imagery firmly grounded in Mexico – turkeys walking amongst stone debris, portraits of the classic round brown faces with high cheekbones, toreadors training next to a highway, re-enactments of the crucifixion – the themes are also universal to the expanding, generic cities of the world.