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Jorge Dan López Juárez – I was born in 1979 in Guerrero, southern Mexico, an area heavily influenced indigenous, and poverty, I start shooting in 1997 in 2000 to migrate to Mexico City where I studied photography courses in different institutions, including the National Autonomous University of Mexico , From 2002 to 2006 lived in Italy, where I worked for different national media, back to Mexico in late 2006, amid a political and social effervescence, since then I have worked on issues such as drug trafficking, migration, social conflicts, natural disasters I worked from 2008 to 2010 as a stringer from Reuters Agency, nominees for the Joop Swart Masterclass 2010, organized by World Press Photo Foundation in Netherlands.

Diablos, day of the death in Costa Chica, Guerrero
In Cuajinicuilapa, municipality of the region of Costa Rica, “afromestizo zone” in southern Mexico, each season dead,the devil is released in groups of 8 to 10, with their masks made of horn cow and horse hair alwais accompanied by the wife of devil boss, Minga, and the little soul, the most small davils, dancing and calling an offering in which rhythmic dance offered in churches, houses, altars with offerings that after they give, made up of fruit, sweets, money and liquor, dance of the jawbone of a donkey when scraped with a stick, many devils are immigrants working in the United States, the oldest say that the devils “have always existed and is very great to be a devil in yout town.

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Tags: Costa Chica, Guerrero