Pablo Casacuevas
CHRISTIAN CHURCHES WITH COLLAPSED DOMES DURING MEXICO´S 19-SEPT-17 EARTHQUAKE, AROUND THE VOLCANO POPOCATEPETL (Craters of Don Goyo´s Ecclesiastic Belt) (Series)
DESCRIPTION
CHRISTIAN CHURCHES WITH COLLAPSED DOMES DURING MEXICO´S 19-SEPT-17 EARTHQUAKE, AROUND THE VOLCANO POPOCATEPETL
(Craters of Don Goyo´s Ecclesiastic Belt)
Images taken with a quadropter of Christian churches with collapsed domes around the epicenter of the 19 September 2017 earthquake in central Mexico, which overlapped with the location and the activity of the Popocatepetl volcano.
At first, locating the churches was not easy, because I didn´t find relevant detailed information. My basic references were from local and Internet reports during the subsequent days. Then I traveled to the spots, supported with the information and commentaries provided by local settlers, insitu.
These are various images photographed during the three months after the earthquake, in the provinces of Puebla, Morelos, and Estado de México. It is a historical event without precedents, in churches built in XVI, XVII and XVIII Centuries.
I think and feel these are pictures with a strong symbolic strength, and sublime beauty.
AUTHOR
Mexico City, 1979.
Photography and cinematographic studies in Mexico City. Cinematographer career in CUEC UNAM.
Co-found photographic agency Lente 30-30, (2001).
Selected in 15th and 16th editions of Mexico´s Bienal de Fotografia (2012-14).
3rd price, II Mosaico Natura´s contest, Un Solo Mundo category, 2016.
2nd price, National Geographic contest “Enmarcando la vida”, 2007.
FONCA´s Jóvenes Creadores grant (2009), “Los Hijos de la Revolución”.
Photographic individual and collective exhibitions in Mexico: Mexico City, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Querétaro, Tamaulipas; and in Brazil, Spain, France, U.S.A., and China.
Special photography for Tamaulipas state government 2003-2016.
Coordinated and photographed books: Recursos Naturales, Retos para la Sustentabilidad (2016), Contruyendo Tamaulipas 2005-2010, and Postales Tamaulipecas (2009).
Highlighted exhibitions:
Individual
2015_Tortuga Lora; Cámara de Senadores; México, CDMX
2008_Viaje a Tamaulipas; 666 gallery-Arcaute Project; Beijing, China
Collective
2016_Animales de México; DISCOVERY, CONABIO; CDMX streets
2014_16 Bienal de Fotografía de México; Parque Fundidora; Monterrey, N.L.
2013_15 Bienal de Fotografía de México; Centro Nacional de las Artes; CDMX.
2010-11_Ni Somos Todos los que Estamos Ni Estamos Todos los que Somos; MUCA Roma; CDMX
2010_Mi Cuerpo es un Arma, video compilation; Bienal de Mercosul; Porto Alegre, Brazil
2010_Mi Cuerpo es un Arma, video compilation; Bienal de las Américas 2010; Denver, Co, U.S.A.
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