A man oversees the lighting of one of the parts of a large fireworks castle.

In Mexico, the dead might be gone, but they are rarely forgotten. A three-day national holiday, Día de Muertos, exists just to remember them and welcome them back to the world of the living each year. And as cremation is...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=XHLKjRnm4A4 In 2010, when my friend and I got in the car and moved to Mexico, I had a lot of time to sit and stare out the window, wondering if I would regret what I had done: quit my...

If there's one truth about the world which is perceptible to us on a daily basis, it's that the living planet, and our human experience of it, is full of differences and perpetual change. For inexplicable reasons, many languages developed...

For the last seven years, I've photographed the Day of the Dead in Mexico, ever since I moved to a colorful lakeside pueblo in the subtropical central highlands of Jalisco. This is everyday Mexico and like much of the country,...

Mexico is a land bursting with culture and traditions, some dating back thousands of years. Despite a constant bombardment of external influences, from Spanish invaders to its present-day neighbors to the north, the country’s customs remain a part of everyday...

We meet in the street. He's shaking uncontrollably and, since I've only lived in Mexico for three months, I can't understand anything he's saying.

Today's modern day pre-Hispanic dancers of Mexico are keeping alive a tradition which even the Spanish conquerors couldn't eradicate 500 years ago: a version of the mitote dance once performed for the Aztec gods, but which now leads the most...