‘I’m a half-Mexican, half-white, brown-skinned man named Ryan Christopher Jones’: A photographer’s visual journey into his heritage – The Washington Post

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Perspective | ‘I’m a half-Mexican, half-white, brown-skinned man named Ryan Christopher Jones’: A photographer’s visual journey into his heritage

Photographer Ryan Jones spent a month in Mexico, working in Mexico City, and traveling to Oaxaca and his grandmother’s birthplace of Juchipila, Zacatecas, on a journey to experience his heritage.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/05/30/im-a-half-mexican-half-white-brown-skinned-man-named-ryan-christopher-jones-a-photographers-visual-journey-into-his-heritage/

“No Estuve Aquí” is not a deep dive that attempts to represent an entire culture; the scenes are quiet observations about a country I have a theoretical relationship with. They’re asking questions about a place I’m just starting to appreciate, and they try to draw a line between the imagined and the real