Career Mom Goes Rogue

The intriguing, sarcastically filled, mom-ism driven, Lyme disease living, gluten-free discovery tales of an average American woman!

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Visiting Day of the Dead with ‘Las Catrinas’ and @elchadsantos

To discover more Catrinas and Mexican portraits, follow @elchadsantos on Instagram.

(This interview was conducted in Spanish.)

Day of the Dead found Mexican photojournalist Iván “Chad” Santos (@elchadsantos) at a very early age. “When I was four or five years old, I was told that on the 1st and 2nd of November the souls of the dead would come to my house,” he says.

Iván’s initial shock turned into a passion over the years, and now he annually documents the “Catrinaje,” a word he uses to describe those who are disguised or painted as “La Calavera Catrina,” an early 20th-century illustration by Mexican painter José Guadalupe Posada that depicts death.

Iván captures representations of La Catrina because he considers them ephemeral: “Sugar skulls, pan de muerto [bread of the dead] and papel picado [perforated paper] haven’t changed that much since I was a child, but the makeup and characterizations of people last just one day,” he says.

Through his photos, Iván wants to share this tradition with those living outside Mexico. “These are my favorite days of the year, and I try to convey a part of it in each picture.”

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Beautiful Day!

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Somebody got into Mommy's chocolate while she wasn't looking! He's so proud of himself <3

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