Edited by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio. Text by Álvaro Enrigue.
Monasterio’s speculative photo series imagines the Mexico City that might have emerged without colonization
Pablo Ortiz Monasterio (born 1952) offers a photographic perspective of Mexico City that captures its pre-Hispanic and colonial past through its surviving archaeological and architectural remnants. Tenochtitlan, once a metropolis of a different kind, now stands as a modern city, layered over the remains of an ancient civilization.
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Published by RM. Edited by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio. Text by Álvaro Enrigue.
Monasterio’s speculative photo series imagines the Mexico City that might have emerged without colonization
Pablo Ortiz Monasterio (born 1952) offers a photographic perspective of Mexico City that captures its pre-Hispanic and colonial past through its surviving archaeological and architectural remnants. Tenochtitlan, once a metropolis of a different kind, now stands as a modern city, layered over the remains of an ancient civilization.