Photobook

My book is a standard portrait size, which is soft cover and the paper type is premium gloss. I wanted my cover to have a Mexican graphic, so I searched for a Mexican pattern on the internet and after a few selections, I chose this image. On the first page you can see in the middle my Title “Not so cholo”.Cholo is a young man who belongs to a gang, with characteristics in the way he dresses and expresses himself; They usually live in northern Mexico or on the border with the United States. It translates as “not so cholo” what I want to interpret with this title is that it is not because we are from a place that we are officially the stereotypes that are presented from that country “I am not as cholo as you think I am”. It is also a play on words in Spanish with the saying “No tan solo” which means not very lonely. The next page is an image of me dressed as a Mexican gang member, my inspiration was of course how we present them in the media. I put my landscape portraits on a full page because obviously the proportions would be better. The sixth image is me diffracted into a drunk Mexican and I juxtaposed it with a drawing of the Mexican lottery called El Borracho, a game that is played a lot in Mexico.Some of my images are juxtaposed with just the same background for an aesthetic detail. My final image is an image of me and my mom because I want to thank you for making me a part and showing me this culture. I want to honor it and show that those ridiculous stereotypes are just offensive and don’t really represent us.