Mexico Alma Natural. List of bookstores. Photography book. Chico Sánchez

Mexico Alma Natural. Chico Sánchez/AM Editores

List of bookstores in Mexico where you can find my new book Mexico, Natural Soul. 
  

Fondo de Cultura

El Sótano

Gandhi

Educal

Pendulo

Porrúa

Lugar de la Mancha

Sanborn´s
Liverpool
Costco
  Sams

If you want to buy a copy online of this book please click here.
The book is both in English and Spanish.

 Fore more information click here. 

For more books of AM Editores click here.

Pictures on Exhibit in Expofotoperiodismo 2012

The single picture on exhibit

Yesterday the 8th Expofotoperiodismo 2012 exhibition was inagurated. The exhibit presents a selection of the best press and documentary images produced by photographers based in Mexico last year. The pictures art exhibited at the Museo del Chopo museum in colaboration with the Centro de la Imagen/CONACULTA. The curator of the show is world renowned photographer John Moore. The exhibit will be open until October 3.

I'm happy to share that my photo story about the photographers of Ojos que Sienten (Sight of Emotion), the organization that gives photo workshops to the blind and visually impaired, is on exhibit at the show, along with an image I took of a cat recovering at a pet hospital.

If you would like to see this show get the map by clicking the picture.

My photostory in Ojos que Sienten (Sight of Emotion) blind and visually impaired photographers

 The pictures are part of these two audio-slide shows: The Sight Within and Pet Hospital

I've been working with photographers of Ojos que Sienten/Sight of Emotion producing audio-slide shows with their pictures. For more information click here.

To see more of my photography work please visit my website: www.chicosanchez.com

Sports in Motion - Blind and Visually Impaired Photo Workshop Projects

I'm sharing my latest audio slide-show production: Sight in Motion, a story about sports and athleticism, photographed and recorded by twelve blind and visually impaired photographers. 


The photographers, who are participating in programs run by the Sight of Emotion organization, took pictures of people playing sports in their neighborhoods as well as Paralympic athletes. 


In the interview, Laura Ramos, a blind student graduating soon with a university degree in journalism who plans to be a sports journalist, explains how blind and visually impaired people experience and perceive sports, compared to a seeing person. The interview was recorded by Gerardo Ramirez, one of the participating photographers.

To watch and listen to the project, please click here: www.chicosanchez.com/motion

(Photo ©Palmira Martinez/Ojos Que Sienten -All Rights Reserved)

I've collaborated with other blind and visually impaired photographers from 

Sight of Emotion, in similar projects such as My Eyes, The Fighter, Organ Grinder, 

Riding Blind and Mexico City Soundscapes.


To support Sight of Emotion click here

To see more photography projects visit my website: www.chicosanchez.com

I saw it before - Sight of emotion

I've produced several photo stories made by blind and visually impaired photographers from Sight of Emotion, a foundation that gives photography workshops to the blind.  When I first spoke to students at a workshop, I told them there are two kind of photographers. The first kind likes looking at his/her pictures and say "Oh, I'm a really good photographer!" The second kind is interested in communicating something valuable.

This kind of photography is available to everyone, including the blind. They can't see their pictures but they are satisfied when their message reaches others. Sounds, smells and touch create mental images that communicate an idea or an emotion that all humans can recognize.  I've had photography students who could see perfectly but couldn't "see" stories or express a message through their work.

Since I began publishing stories by blind photographers, the most prevalent feedback I've gotten is doubt that they took the pictures by themselves. It made me realize how we unconsciously discriminate against the blind.

Remember that us "seeing" photographers crop and tone our photographs, and sometimes have them edited by others. We even get help with access to what we're photographing.  But we assume that the blind must do it all by themselves!  No editing, no photoshoping, no producing, no help with access, nothing. 

It's clear to me now why the world is so difficult for people with special needs. Fortunately, the blind photographers I've worked with make good pictures with interesting messages, showing that there are no barriers for those who aspire to move beyond mental barriers. 

It's been health for me to truly understand what it means for sight not to be the only way to perceive the world and that looking at pictures isn't the only reason to take them. Photography by the blind is a great tool for them to be seen instead of ignored. 

Photography student Maritza González once told me during an interview:

"In reality everything is in the mind. If you notice, this chair where I'm seated, somebody one day thought:  'The school desk will be like this, and created it.' It's the same thing when, apparently we don't have sight, everything is in our thoughts and when our mind knows what it wants to photograph, to see, to make people see, it just has to be in our mind. Everything is in my mind and my mind is marvelous. I saw it before the photo was even taken. I saw it. Click. And there's the photo." 

To read more about this projects click in the picture.

(Photo ©Chico Sanchez-All Rights Reserved)

For more plese visit my website: www.chicosanchez.com

Mexico City Soundscapes - Blind and Visually Impaired Photo Workshop Projects

I'm sharing my latest audio slide-show production: a story photographed and recorded by four blind and visually impaired photographers showcasing the sounds of Mexico City's streets related to trades that are slowly but surely disappearing. The project was proposed by Gerardo Ramirez, who worked with his fellow students from the Sight of Emotion organization, Edgar Angeles, Jose Sebastian Munoz and Miguel Fabian. I edited the audio and photos and produced the audio-slide show. 

To see the audio slideshow click here: www.chicosanchez.com/soundscapes

Also I want to share some pictures of the photographers working on this project.

Gerardo Ramirez, left, and Jose Sebastian, right, record the sound of the "Camotero," 

who sells sweet potatoes and bananas from his cart.

Edgar Angeles, right, speaks with Jose Sebastian as they take pictures for the project.

Edgar Angeles, right, and Jose Sebastian take pictures of the organ grinder.

Gerardo Ramírez, Miguel A. Fabian and Edgar Angeles pose on the set 
of a street photographer outside Our Lady of Guadalupe Basilica.

Edgar Angeles sits on a plastic horse as he jokes with his walking stick 

on the set of a street photographer outside Our Lady of Guadalupe Basilica.

Similar to this project, I've collaborated with other blind and visually impaired photographers from Sight of Emotion, such as My Eyes, The Fighter, Organ Grinder and Riding Blind.

If you want to see my work related to Sight of Emotion click here
To support  Sight of Emotion enter this link: sightofemotion.com
To see more photography projects visit my website: www.chicosanchez.com

Riding Blind - Blind and Visually Impaired Photo Workshop Projects

I'm sharing an audio-slide show featuring pictures by Raul Lopez Esquivel, a blind man who learned to take pictures at a Sight of Emotion workshop that offers photography workshops for the blind and visually impaired.

Lopez, who was born blind, photographed Paseo a Ciegas (Riding Blind), an initiative that takes people with special needs on bike rides using tandems along the main avenues of Mexico City every Sunday. I helped with the audio and production.

To see the audio slide show click here: http://www.chicosanchez.com/ridingblind

(Photo ©Raul Lopez/OQS-All Rights Reserved)


Similar to this project, I've collaborated with other blind and visually impaired photographers from Sight of Emotion, such as "My Eyes," "The Fighter," and "Organ Grinder." Currently I'm working on a very interesting project with four blind and visually impaired photographers which I'll be sharing soon. 

If you want to see my work related to Sight of Emotion click here

To support  Sight of Emotion enter this link: sightofemotion.com

To know more about Paseo a Ciegas click here.
To see all my photography projects visit my website: www.chicosanchez.com

Let me have your eyes. Clown Merry Niko. Portrait Audio slide-show

When I work on audio-slide shows, I end up cutting interesting audio that I wish I could have included. They tend to be comments that are wise, which makes interviewing people so worthwhile for me personally, but that are unrelated to the story.

I'm happy to have finally figured out a way to share them. Starting with the story I did on the Laughter Fair organized by Latino Clown Brotherhood in Mexico City, I'll be taking unused audio and pairing it with a few portraits of the person speaking, creating short audio-slide show "portraits."

"Let me have your eyes" is about Leida Jimenez, clown "Merry Niko," who tells us about an interesting experience she had while performing for school children.  Leida lives in Villahermosa, in the state of Tabasco in southern Mexico.

To see "Let me have your eyes" please click here: www.chicosanchez.com/letmehaveyoureyes

(Photo ©Chico Sanchez-All Rights Reserved)

Here is the original audio-slide show from the Clown convention : www.chicosanchez.com/clowns

My Eyes

My Eyes is an audio-slide show featuring pictures taken by Jose Antonio Dominguez, a student from the photography workshop for the blind and visually impaired organized by Sight of Emotion organization, where I had the pleasure of teaching photography this summer.  I helped him develop his idea for the photo essay, he went out and took the pictures and I recorded the audio and produced it.

In this project Jose Antonio introduces us to his guide-dog Bonnie, tells us what it's like for him to take pictures in Mexico City and shows us the people who help him along his way through D.F.

Soon I'll be publishing more stories in collaboration with students from this workshop for the blind and visually impaired.  To see the audio-slide show click here: www.chicosanchez.com/myeyes

(Photo ©Jose Antonio Dominguez/OQS-All Rights Reserved)

 To see more of my audio-slide shows please enter my website: www.chicosanchez.com

   To know more about Sight of Emotion enter their website: sightofemotion.com (In Spanish)