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Intimate Barefoot Elopement in the Columbia River Gorge

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motivationsforlife: Lake District, United Kingdom by Matt Jones…

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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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You know that one person who thinks they're the shit but really they're trying way too hard?

Yeah me too. It's getting really old.

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this whole being a woman thing really hurts.

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I hate the phrase “boys will be boys” and I think it should be replaced with “bad parenting results in assholes”

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What the FUCK LOOK AT THAT SUPER LOW HORIZON LINE THESE WAVES AR E BEING PHOTOGRAPHED LIKE TRADITIONAL MOUNTAIN TYPE PAINTINGS

WTF THIS IS SO AWEOSME IT’S BLOWING MY MIND

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‘Meet the Generation of Incredible Native American Women Fighting to Preserve Their Culture’ via Marie Claire

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This always slays

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YASSSS

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Cry as much as me that this show is over.

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Leave a legacy like Lil Sebastian

YOU’RE 5000 CANDLES IN THE WIND

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   Another photo of the Navajos banning the swastika.

The document they are signing starts off: “Because the above ornament, which has been a sign of friendship among our forefathers for many centuries has been desecrated recently by another nation of peoples.”

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[second paragraph] “Therefore it is resolved that henceforth from this date on and forever more our tribes renounce the use of the emblem commonly known today as the swastika or fylfot on our blankets, baskets, art objects, sandpaintings and clothing.”

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“But I’m using it in it’s ORIGINAL meaning!”

Nope.

My respect and my heart goes out to the Navajo nation for the willing amputation of a symbol that belonged to them. I had no idea.