Gritty Photos of the Highs and Lows of Mexico City’s Underground Nightlife – VICE

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Gritty Photos of the Highs and Lows of Mexico City’s Underground Nightlife

“My most creative and calm moments happen at night while the fucking bureaucrats sleep.”

Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wj3n44/gritty-photos-of-the-highs-and-lows-of-mexico-citys-underground-nightlife

For more than 20 years, Mexican photographer José de Jesús “Chucho” León Hernández has documented wild moments that could only happen in the dead of night, when Mexico City’s daytime denizens finally drift off to sleep. Chucho wanders the metropolis with his camera, popping into underground nightclubs and dark alleys, capturing stark images of drugs, sex, squalor, glamour, revelry, and death.