The photographs in this room represent over a thousand photos taken on Mexican streets during a three-week visit to the country in July 2001. As part of a Mexican government contingency, many of the locations on the trip were privileged, such as the views of Guanajuato and many of the Tlaxcala locales. All photos were made in those districts, plus the Polanco District of Mexico City and the Teotihuacan Pyramids in Central Mexico.

Guanajuato has a total population of over a million residents, most people live outside the beautiful sprawling downtown areas, on a series of winding local roads nestled throughout the Sierra Madre Mountains. Downtown Guanajuato itself does not allow vehicles on the streets so visitors and residents park along the sides of a completely underground roadway system.

Tlaxcala is a smaller town - quiet and more rural; lined with beautiful haciendas and wonderful gardens, many of which have been turned into hotels. Finally, worth noting, the pyramids at Teotihuacan, over 12,000 feet above sea level, feel holy and other-worldly. There is a strong sense that spirits from other lifetimes still linger - waiting for the sun to drop and the infamous shadows to rise. Mexico is a wonderful place, full of excitement and adventure where the very old and the very new mix to remind us all of its status as the earliest inhabited part of the western hemisphere.