Books by Chico Sanchez

México con Alma

Big, thick, coffee table style book with 253 pages featuring travel pictures from across Mexico. Focusing in culture, architecture, arqueology, among other travel subjets. Published as collectors item. Not for sale.

  

México Essential Soul

Big, thick, coffee table style book with 263 pages featuring my travel pictures from across Mexico. Focusing in culture, architecture, arqueology, traditions, among other travel subjets. The images run full page and are accompanied by poetic texts by Alejandra Uhthoff in English and Spanish.

México Alma Natural

Big, thick, coffee table style book with 263 pages featuring my travel pictures from across Mexico, focusing on nature.

From the desert of Baja California to El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, the home of the mythical Quetzal bird, images run full page and are accompanied by poetic texts by Alejandra Uhthoff in English and Spanish.



If you read in Spanish contact me and I'll send you my autobiographical book: El curso de la vida

If you are interested in any of my books please contact me:

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The Forgotten Book

Jazmin Castillo Inocente does more than sell books. While choosing and organizing books on the shelves of the "Librero En Andanzas" (Bookseller´s Adventure) in Mexico City, she´s patiently searching for "the forgotten book".

I became interested in doing a story about my favorite used bookstore in the capital´s Roma Sur neighborhood as I discovered objects left behind inside the ones I bought for my self. I was coming into contact with mysterious bits and pieces of other people´s lives. I was intrigued.

I invite you to take a moment to wath my latest audiovisual and see Jazmine´s fascinating world of books. Please enter this link: www.chicosanchez.com/forgottenbook

(Photo ©Chico Sanchez-All Rights Reserved)

 For more information about this book store enter this link: www.libreroenandanzas.com

 

For more of my photography work please enter my website: www.chicosanchez.com

 

Comandante - Hugo Chavez's Venezuela Book

 Comandante

I want to present the book Comandante about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez by Rory Carroll, an Irish journalist I had the opportunity to know in Caracas.

I admire journalists who step forward and dare to write about Venezuelan politics because it is guaranteed to get heated criticism from both sides of the country's political divide: Chavistas and the opposition.

I lived in Caracas por six years covering news. The most difficult thing about the story of Chavez was that depending on your political views, you could find the good or the bad, but Rory explains nicely with these words: "Home was Caracas, a front-row seat to Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. A fascinating polarising, fustrating story: the world judged him as a monster or messiah, but he was more interesting, and it took a book to explain why."

(Photo ©Chico Sanchez-All Rights Reserved)

Of course, one book can't fully explain any subject, much less the life of Hugo Chavez, but it sheds some light on him as a political figure.

Two of my photographs of Chavez are published in the book. One is an image of Hugo Chavez and Cuban President Fidel Castro. I took this picture when I was still learning how to take pictures. I was at the airport on my way home to visit family when I heard Fidel Castro was arriving to meet Chavez at the airport. I lined up with the rest of the press and got in, and took my first news pictures.

The other image is of Chavez holding up a bring green parrot wearing a Chavez's iconic red beret. I'll never forget being amazeed seeing that tiny red beret on the parrot's head! That was the first political rally I covered, and a few days later I started working as a freelancer with Reuters.

(Photo ©Chico Sanchez-All Rights Reserved)

For more information about Comandante click here.
Fore more about the author Rory Carroll click here.

If you want to see some of the pictures I took in those years in Venezuela please visit the slide show in this link: www.chicosanchez.com/venezuela

The Jazz Loft Project

Here is an audio-slideshow The Jazz Loft Project by New York Times. From 1957 to 1965 photographer W. Eugene Smith recorded  4,000 hours on 1,741 reel-to-reel tapes and took 40,000 photographs of major jazz musicians in a loft of Manhattan. This work was archived until Sam Stephenson published a book last year. Jeffrey Henson Scales produced this magnificent work. If you like Jazz you are going to enjoy this. To see the audio-slide show click in the picture.

(Photo ©Eugene Smith/The Jazz Loft Project-All Rights Reserved)

This piece got an award from the Best of Photojournalism 2011 (BOP), a contest organized by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) in the U.S.

For more information about this amazing project enter this link: www.jazzloftproject.org

Artan's Day a Children's Story Book by Oliver Klink

This week I'm sharing a book by Oliver Klink. His story is about Artan, a little grizzly bear in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska.  It's great to see work by photographers like Klink that create conscienceness about nature's beauty, and also help save bears and their environment from destruction. To preview the book click here: http://www.blurb.com/books/767929

(Photo ©Oliver Klink-All Rights Reserved)

For more information about Oliver Klink enter here: http://oliverklinkphotography.com