Mix on the Lower East Side
[st] A good guy, Sergio Rosalen, who has been in New York for more than two years.…
Brandoli Javier Manzano, Journalist and photography lover. I have lived since 2010 South Africa, Mozambique, Mexico, Italy, Thailand. I now live in the United States, New York, since April 2025.
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tales from new york
All the photos in these stories are taken with a wide-angle lens of 10-22 mm. You can't understand New York without a wide angle .
Washington: yoga against bombs
Do you know that you are in a gay bar? He asked the guy sitting next to us on the square bar of a bar where everything around us were men ...
Kruger: shattered the night sky
Suddenly, I felt the wind on his face shaking. He got a smell of wet earth, calving ground for, a night sky torn. I noticed in the distance were some rays. They seemed lost, distant, unattainable. Soon it was also the sound. You could hear the thunder from the horizon. He quickly became far closer. The rain began to unload with force. The air was heavy with the smell of entrails. And suddenly, in the midst of those hard days, difficult, occurred sublime, magic.
Apulia: medieval villages along with magnificent beaches
The traveler began a long road for unknown Italy. From Naples to La Puglia. More 500 car miles through places that are off the traditional tourist route. We're headed in the more rural Italy, attached to the sea and away from the hordes of foreign tourists.
Route through unknown Rome
But out of all that universe that is the center of the Italian capital, there is another Rome that is unknown to tourists. Live at a lower rate, sometimes even the miracle of lack of noise occurs. Close, sometimes it can be conquered on foot and sometimes a car is necessary, Silently emerges next to the great Rome and becomes a whim, in beauty and rest.
The highway of the Mayans
It was just a road. A creased line joining two points. Nothing. A twisting line. she was beautiful, different. A line. Nothing.
Simojovel: the spots of amber
The Chinese came one morning three years ago and changed everything.. They came to buy the pure amber, the one without spots. Prices have increased tenfold and now local artisans can no longer buy that amber, we can't pay it.
San Juan de Chamula: the strange Mayan rite of Coca Cola
We see people lying on the ground and the sacrifice of a rooster, to which a shaman twists the neck and passes it by the back to a teenager with a frightened gesture. "This is an important ceremony because of the number of candles that are burned. The flames are a barrier of soldiers against evil ”, Pancho explains.
El Salvador (In): the church of heaven and hell
I had read that outside symbolizes hell and inside symbolizes heaven. Its facade is concrete and has an abandoned appearance. Within, as if man could afford to interpret the sacred, you access a temple without columns, open, in which stained glass is projected everywhere. It is beautiful.
Equal to: life wins in the town of slaughter
Death is bastard and hard, but the reality is that life is much more powerful and always wins. Although they are missing 43, even though thousands are missing, always compose and win.
Route through Baja California Sur: the nude Mexico
Modernity gave the business of that lost place the rogue air of places where you never know which half of the things are lies and the other half are uncertain.. It does, Malarrimo is the bar where I want to get drunk with mezcal every night with patrons who tell me that they sleep with the ghost of Moby Dyck.
Chronicle from Garissa, the terrrorista bombing which no one speaks
I'm in a hotel in Garissa and I am one of the few foreign field. 147 dead in Kenya and what. 147 dead in Kenya and our dignity in tatters, friends. 147 dead and fear remains. And the inhabitants of Garissa running down the road to get home before curfew. And terror. And the constant threat. And we sleep quiet today because today, this time, us we have not done pupa
Easter indigenous in Mexico
Of the numerous indigenous celebrations, perhaps that of the Tarahumara Indians, in Chihuahua, be the most unique. Unlike other celebrations around the Mexican Republic, For the Tarahumara people, Holy Week does not represent the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, but the eternal struggle between good and evil, They call it "nolirúache" (hanging around) and marks a kind of new year according to its agricultural calendar
Dante: the book which lasted thirteen years
Dante was not a birth, were one hundred. My first novel thirteen years hard in and out in a drawer or opening and closing of a computer that many times was nothing more than an old forgotten file. Dante times are explained in the illustrative example that the first draft is crafted, with pen and cuartillas, then I still had confidence in understanding what was able to draw with fingers.
The Scream, the crying of Fernando del Paso
[st] The exciting and wonderful full speech of the writer, painter, Mexican academic and diplomat, Fernando del Paso, 79…
Chinese apartheid in Mexico
Especially in the north, in the state of Sonora, the rejection of the Chinese community was increasing. Anti-Chinese League were established in several cities, constantly they ransacked their shops and orchards and, even, in 1923 a law that prevented intermarriage between Mexican and Oriental enacted.
The procession of the beggar monks of Luamprabang
Suddenly, when dawn was already creeping in the day, between the dark and the light, a long line of monks appeared carrying their orange robes as if the cloth were coming from their shoulders, in an absolute lack of noise in which only the footsteps were heard, breathing and the twinkling of their baskets. I found it a beautiful image, serena.
Sex facing death in Mexico
In Mexico, what Olguín said may be true and there is a cruel and sickly coexistence with charred bodies and massacres that are narrated with such precision that the weatherman seems to be going to explain after the newscast if it will be necessary to carry an umbrella, coat or balaclava to upcoming funerals.
Forgiveness of Angkor Wat
Angkor is a sin of existence, a whim that must have remained covered by the forest so that in my dreams I could have allowed myself the luxury of imagining that I was the one who rediscovered them
Mexico DF: chronic normality
And 21 days of course I do not know the DF. Try, to compensate a little, narrate a truth that comes out less and that has as much force as the other and that, in my privileged live, has been constant. I guess it's worth saying to at least put an end to the false ghosts. Life, in routine, Always Wins.
El sexo en Bangkok
On each floor, center, there are dozens of teenagers looking, with a simple thong, dancing in a cage barely moving the body due to lack of space. All around there are always dozens of man drinking and looking. Todas llevan un número en la braga. Están marcadas.
Corresponsal en México
Go here for this measure contract, not to jump to conclusions, trying to count the important things first and the least important things too, after. Of not telling me and yes telling others. Go this desire as a whole to hold on to when the egos and doubts come ...
Bangkok, beyond the ghettos of tourists
We had the opportunity to enter the city through the main gate, not for the guest. A couple of Francesca's friends, she thai, They put us up in their house and showed us their city.. And there, to summarize, everything gained charm and realism compared to the terrifying Bangkok (valid for all of Thailand in my opinion) of so many travelers who flock madly to Khao San Road and surrounding areas (backpacker neighborhood).
