For a week this past summer I attended a photojournalism workshop in Mexico City--the Foundry workshop--the first of its kind, with a bunch of cool famous photojournalists. I stayed with my photographer friends Trevor (http://www.trevorsnapp.com/) and Bene at their flat and enjoyed a great week of tacos al pastor, pozole soup, and photographing naked farmers. These farmers, from Veracruz, were camped out in downtown DF, protesting the takeover of their farming land by land developers and corrupt politicians to make place for an airport. Check out some of the pictures here:
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I spent the next 4-5 days on a bit of vacation, in Sayulita close to Puerto Vallarta, surfing and eating fish tacos. I'd planned to head to the Troncones area, but after several fatal Bull Shark attacks in the area (http://sharkattackmonitor.blogspot.com/2008/05/fatal-23-may-2008-pantla-beach.html)--at a beach I'd surfed a year before--I decided to pass. By the way don't read shark attack blogs if you ever want to get in the water again. Shark attacks on the Mexico coast are quite rare, and some shark experts argued that La Nina conditions might have influenced these attacks, as the cold water column was closer to shore than usual. Bull sharks, while not entirely massive, are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet, and are responsible for most of the attacks in the US, in Florida.
While in Sayulita we got a bit of south swell and I surfed a great day on the other side of the peninsula. I cut my foot a bit on the entry--there were big rocks on the beach....and then turns out there were a bunch of reef sharks in the water. They kept coming to the surface and flopping about so myself and the other surfers tried to keep our limbs out of the water....one came up pretty close to my foot and gave me a little spook, so i got out of the water till my cut had stopped bleeding. No matter the size, not cool to see that shape below you.
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