Jungla de asfalto, 1998
This portfolio was realized at Mexico City’s zoo between 1996 and 1998.
At this time, I worked on Mexico City and its inhabitants. Thus, these animals are inhabitants too, and I photographed them as such.
I intentionally used vignetting on the pictures’ borders. It made me think of these hunters’ rifles with telescopic sight. To take pictures is kind of a predation action. Wasn’t I satisfying this human craving for slaughter, without the unpleasant consequences of guilt?
– Pía Elizondo
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