​M E D'Andrea
Photography

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This portfolio of eighteen black-and-white images, shot during the weeks around Día de los Muertos, traces a cycle from mortality through journey and ceremony to the intimate rituals of home.

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Mortality
A sea turtle’s carcass on black sand reminds us that every life returns to earth. A child sleeps beneath Day-of-the-Dead masks, innocence cradled by mortality. Roasted rabbits in a market stall turn death into sustenance.

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Transits

A boy pressed to a train window gazes at the unknown. A girl walks the shoreline with her scarf billowing like a sail. A mother cradles her sleeping child on a bus—bodies still as their minds travel between home and horizon.

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Community

Electric lights bathe cotton-candy vendors and masked dancers. A tattooed back and a solitary figure in an urban doorway explore identity in public space. A makeshift shrine beneath a city tree anchors everyday devotion.

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Rituals & Memory
At home altars, a father and son stand before photographs; a woman pauses in candlelight. Bowls of broth and tamales become offerings. Farmers deliver food to street shrines. Elderly women wrapped in blankets keep vigil in the pantheon. Finally, a grandmother and granddaughter share a hammock, symbolising the circle complete.

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Through tonal contrast and candid composition, Yo Vivo, Mex reveals how death, memory, and love intertwine—binding us across generations and guiding us onward.