Ok, let’s be honest …. the arrival in the huge city of Mexico is a huge shock … a shock of culture, colors, noises, sensations … Life.

24 million inhabitants is intense especially when everything seems to be about Contrasts …  Green and  red, colors and black and white. Modernity and tradition. Sweetness of flavors and spice of spices. It is extreme poverty and extreme wealth. Life and death.  Death and life …

A shock for our North American culture that wants everything, immediately… You need to learn patience facing the “manana”s, “tomorrow”s, and “no worries”.  But above all, trying to enjoy the present moment as much as possible, since no one knows what will bring tomorrow …

What is incredible also here is that you see children everywhere, with their mischievous eyes but sometimes you see the sadness and you know they have lived too much too early … A sweetness of life and a kindness that one can see in the magnificent smiles of Mexican people. But yet the sadness of the “disappeared” and the violence everywhere in watermark that everyone would like to forget but can not …

If you want to see more, this is my first gallery on Mexico  

https://annecharlotteguinot.com/index.php/galleries/mexico-city/