citylikeyou — Christchurch / Erin Lee

Erin, nomadic being inspired by the unknown. Based as a freelance photographer for 5 years in Mexico and after a recent project in North Africa, Erin has recently returned to a base in Australia. Erin’s work applies environmental portraiture with landscapes and habitats to break the stereotypes which surround her subjects.

https://www.erinleephotography.com

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Current city: Mexico City

Other cities: Melbourne

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Mexico City / Bar

Mami Slut is one of the only dance parties in Mexico City with a mission to have decent music at queer friendly parties, Latin beats. Started by DJ Travieza and La Mendoza, the monthly celebration at Bahia Bar has become a premier gathering point for queer folks looking for a safe space to grind to reggaeton, cumbia, dembow, and basically anything other than the house music and Madonna songs that dominate the city's gay parties.

Mexico City / Music Venue

Plaza Garibaldi, home to Mexico City’s mariachis. Located along one of the city’s main avenues, Eje Central a few blocks from the Fine Arts Palace. At all hours of the day and night, mariachi bands can be found playing or soliciting gigs from visitors to the Plaza, or on the main avenue trying to get picked up and taken to house parties to play. A must see if you are in the city centre.

Mexico City / Other

Entering Santa Fe, Mexico City. Santa Fe is one of Mexico City's major business districts, located in the west part of the city, consisting of countless high-rise buildings that tower over Latin America's largest shopping mall. Built over existing landfills, several layers of sand was poured over millions of tons of garbage before constructions began. Many original residents of the outlying suburbs were evicted and forced to the outskirts seen here.

Mexico City / Event

Passion of Christ in Iztapalapa. Iztapalapa, is the most populous of Mexico City's 16 boroughs, an urban sprawl on the eastern edge of Mexico City, home to nearly two million people and one of the city's lowest-income areas. Every year a huge numbers of additional visitors, an estimated 2-4 million spectators gather to watch the annual Passion of the Christ procession. The area has been plagued by high crime rates and instances of domestic violence for years therefore, the prestige and scale of the Passion procession are a much-needed source of honour for a community that is so often portrayed negatively in the news.

Mexico City / Transport

If you are visiting Mexico City you must use the metro to get a true insight into daily life in the capital city, but be prepared as it is hectic as! Sometimes feels like the entire Mexico City population is in your carriage during rush hour. Used by around 4.4 million passengers on an average weekday, it has 195 stations and more than 226km of track on 12 lines. Trains arrive every two to three minutes during rush hours. At M$5 a ride, it’s one of the world’s cheapest subways and will get you across the entire city. Best option for people watching and striking up conversation with people you may not otherwise talk to.

New York / Photographer

Clémence Polès is a New York-based creative strategist & marketer. Born in the south of France and raised in Dubai, she graduated from King's College London with a Masters in International Marketing. Prior to consulting, Clemence was leading the marketing efforts and digital content of tech start-up, Splacer. Since, she has worked with clients such as Sonos, West Elm, Soho House, Casper, Canal Street Market and more. She is also the creative mind and photographer behind Passerbuys, a website built around real recommendations of the women that pass us by, gaining press from the likes of Time Out, Refinery29, Sight Unseen & more.

Istanbul / Artist

photographer, visual artist, visual story teller, founder of FiLBooks Istanbul, lecturer

Dortmund / Photographer

Louisa Stickelbruck is a photographer based in Dortmund, Germany. Her focus lies on portraiture, editorial and fine art photography.

Buenos Aires / Photographer

Photographer from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

London / Photographer

Wanda Martin is a London based photographer and film maker, working in the fashion and music industry. Having graduated with MA Hons. at London College of Fashion in photography, her clients include magazines such as VOGUE, Numero, Dazed, i-D, Wonderland, Glamour, Marie Claire, Instyle China; brands such as Marc Jacobs, Dior, Burberry, Diesel, Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY, Pretty Green. She is originally from Hungary, she also graduated with BA Hons. at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Fine Art Photography and at Eotvos Lorand University Budapest in Aesthetics, Film History and Theory. These studies deeply inspire her up until today in her personal, conceptual photo projects such as ‘Nights Out’ documentary series published on i-D, and ‘Lovers’ series on DAZED digital. Wanda Martin worked with artists such as Sergei Polunin, ballet dancer, record labels, Atlantic Records and Sony Music and musicians such as Zara Larsson, Tom Walker, Sean Lennon, and bands such as The Horrors, Eagles of Death Metal, Sundara Karma or Fat White Family. Her style can be described as the combination of romantic painterly beauty and rock'n'roll attitude. She became a European CANON Ambassadors early 2019.

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