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Mexico City has historic buildings, incredible history, impossibly lovely neighborhoods, plus awesome restaurants & nightlife.

Away from all that though, as any bus or taxi ride will show, most areas as you cross the city look like this. For a documentary photographer, it’s just more to love.

Typical building in non-tourist Mexico City.

December 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM

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Yesterday in Oaxaca.

Mercado Benito Juarez, southwest entrance.

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Southwest entrance at the big Benito Juarez market a block south from the Zócalo.

December 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM

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The most powerful court of all is the court of public opinion if only Americans on the left could wrap their heads around that concept.

Hint: You need a lot more than a day of marches every couple of months.

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Yeah, yeah. Trump still owns the Supreme Court

December 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM

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Yanhuitlan, Mexico

A teaser for an upcoming story about my visit to a tiny village with a massive 16th Century church.

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A collage from Yanhuitlan, Mexico, a tiny empty village on a secondary road northwest of Oaxaca where sits an enormous church built by Mixtec labor in the 16th century.

Soon to be my next Substack article.

November 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM

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Today in Oaxaca

Enjoying huevos al gusto in a mom-and-pop cafe while Marilyn watches over me.

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#oaxaca #travel

An old poster of Marilyn Monroe in a Iittle Oaxaca cafe.

November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM

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Oaxaca, Mexico
Summer & Fall 2025

Four more recent phone shots from my Oaxaca Squares series.

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Family run taco table in Barrio La Noria.

Hat vendor in the tourist zone near Santo Domingo Church.

Travelers under the colonnade next to Oaxaca’s Zócalo.

November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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Today in Oaxaca

Seems like I stumbled across a theme this morning. Both taken with my iPhone.

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A diptych from my local streets. Rough architecture, both featuring a Christian cross as a found object.

November 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM

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Oaxaca, Mexico 2025

Four more from my Oaxaca Squares gallery. All taken in the last few months with my iPhone.

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Bell ringer at Templo y Convento de San Francisco de Asís a few blocks south of the Zocalo.

Two nuns taking a stroll in the historical district.

Local shopkeepers hamming it up for a photograph.

Woman waiting outside one of the entrances to the vast Abasto street market.

November 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM

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Oaxaca, Mexico 2025

Four more from my Oaxaca Squares gallery. All taken in the last few months with my iPhone.

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November 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM

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Dug out some phone shots taken around Oaxaca since June. I then made an album of the ones I liked in Lightroom. Here’s the first group of four.

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Early morning street scene on the outskirts of Oaxaca.

Early morning in a Oaxaca hillside community.

Passengers arriving from the many small communities scattered throughout the valleys radiating out from Oaxaca.

Morning worker in Oaxaca’s Barrio La Noria.

November 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM

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Sunset in Oaxaca
November, 2025

From last night. Walking through the historic Centro district, post-Day Of The Dead.

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A diptych of sunset shots in Oaxaca, Mexico.

November 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM

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Ocampo y Rayón
Oaxaca, Mexico
November, 2025

With this week’s Lucha Libre posters.

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Man with bicycle waiting to cross at a typical Oaxaca Centro street corner.

November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM

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Apartment Lobby
Oaxaca, Mexico
November, 2025

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Black and white study of an apartment building lobby in Oaxaca, Mexico’s historic center.

November 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM

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This is how it’s done, folks!

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October 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM

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Great history about rebels writing in the shadows for years against Diaz, leading up to the 1910 revolution.

Often from the US then smuggled in. The power of words.

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October 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM

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By tomorrow, the only person who won’t have seen this video is Mike Johnson,

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 19

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

October 19, 2025 at 6:08 AM

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New Circumspectral

I write about Day Of The Dead, found art & Oaxacan civic planning.
Plus, morning in Puebla.

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October 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM

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I’m beginning to believe Mike Johnson is kept in a hermetically sealed capsule between interviews.

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Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · Oct 18

Good word! I wonder what H. T. Webster would think if he knew then its platonic ideal would be 3rd in line for the presidency 100 years later.

October 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM

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Good word! I wonder what H. T. Webster would think if he knew then its platonic ideal would be 3rd in line for the presidency 100 years later.

October 18, 2025 at 6:43 AM

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Antifa have completed their assault on Portland, Oregon and are now back at their vast compound beneath Mount Shasta in Northern California planning further actions.

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Apocalyptic cityscape. May or may not be Portland, Oregon.

October 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM

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In the end, kindness will win.

Read my latest.

A Village Half Full:
The Education Of A Gringo

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Always Free.

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Words of Pyotr Kropotkin, Russian geographer and anarchist.

“Sociability is the greatest advantage in the struggle for life. Those species which willingly or unwillingly abandon it are doomed to decay,”

October 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM

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I wrote about the vast secondary transport system serving 4M people in Oaxaca’s three valley region. I’m building a map to plot as many stations as I can find. There are dozens scattered around the city’s Centro district, but no source material that lists them in one place. (see photos below)