Attacked to be against the colonialist gaze and the bad approach in photography

In February of this year when I was going back at home after my expedition in Oaxaca

Yes, guys…lens-based photographers are thinking more on their cameras and lenses and they are not sincerely interested into people.

What I have seen in February in San Martin Tilcajete is a scene already experienced in other events. There are photographers tending to make a circus of anything and that is pretty sad.

In Santa Cruz Xoxocotlan, for example, as I said in the video, there are people with 0 respect and a real understanding of culture putting their fuckin’ tripods and ruining anything in the night od the dead, where the people gather around the tumbs of their loved ones. And it is disgraceful to see photographers going grave to grave and shooting in a compulsory way, like a tourist in a zoo. with teir fuckin’ zoom lenses. They are disrespectful.

In San Martin Tilcajete the barbarian horde arrived all on the same day, right at the height of the celebration, included the group of a very well known master of street photography, all armed with Leica and Sony cameras, the most expensive ones so they can say to be serious photographers, knowing shit of San Martin and their people, but no problem because their intereste is not people, or better, they photograph people but they don’t love people really and they look at them just like subjects of their fuckin’ photos.

And so, when I dared to denounce this state of affairs I was attacked on the internet by three Mexican photographers, all friends of each other, one of whom did exactly what was said above in San Martin. They act like those invented the carnival in San Martin. But then if you get to know them you know that they vote for right-wing, conservative parties that identify with a classist and racist mentality, that I recently had to read that they even judge the level of education of people by their appearance. Because of course for them is pretty fair to go with their expensive gear to photograph bindigenous people for their fuckin’ photos, but they don't really mix with the indigenous people, not even with the poor because you know for them poverty is contagious.

There is a lot of crap in this world and, of course, photography is not an exception. What I can do is only reporting this state of things, guys. I know that manyu get what I am talking about.