In the course of eight trips to Mexico between 1981 and 2003, the American photographer Mark Cohen traveled to Mexico City, Merida, Oaxaca, and Yucatan. Impressed by a land he calls “surreal,” the artist wanders around with his camera, with no anthropological or social agenda.
Mark Cohen writes: “I took these pictures exactly the same way I did in Wilkes-Barre, my hometown. I simply got caught up in whatever was in front of me, out there, in the street. I was really fascinated by the extreme novelty of this giant city. There’s something surreal in the air over there. A simple cardboard box looks different at night, in Mexico City, either that or it’s what one feels in this marvelous place looking at a cardboard box, and then it gets seamlessly transferred onto film.”