Böcker utgivna av Editorial RM Mexico

Las Mexicanas presents a careful selection of studio and vernacular photographs of Mexican women from the mid-nineteenth century to the 60s.Through the careful edition of Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, the set of images forms a portrait in which the journey of women's empowerment is shown before the camera since the beginnings of photographic practice.

Several years ago, having learned of the festival of the Cascamorras in the town of Baza in Granada province, Frederic Amat decided to witness in person the ancestral celebration, during which a group of young people climb a nearby hill in the mid-afternoon and stain themselves from head to foot with a black ink similar to petroleum tar.