A wooden pedal loom in a weaving workshop in Oaxaca, with a woven textile on the frame.

People · Places · Traditions

Stories of the Land and Its People.

Landscapes, traditions and everyday lives across contemporary Mexico.

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An independent publication

We look for the stories behind the land, the people and the places — the lives that guidebooks pass by.

Green forested mountains and valleys in Oaxaca under a cloudy sky.
A woman cooking over a wood fire in an outdoor kitchen in Axaxacualco, Guerrero.
Skeins of naturally coloured wool hanging against a brick wall in Oaxaca.

I · The land

Mountains, coasts and fields that shape how people live.

Every story begins somewhere: a valley, a shoreline, a milpa. We write about places through what they ask of the people who live there.

II · The people

Families, workshops and small businesses.

The people who sustain a community — and who decide, every day, what to keep and what to change.

III · The traditions

Knowledge passed from hand to hand.

How a craft, a recipe or a celebration travels from one generation to the next, and what it becomes along the way.

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Latest stories

Stories will appear here as they are published.

A small boat crossing a calm, pale sea in Mexico.

Land & memory

Mexico is a land of many layers.

Its landscapes, people and traditions are constantly shaping one another.

The Central Valleys of Oaxaca seen from a hillside with prickly pear cactus in the foreground.

Places

Territories and communities, told from within.

Not destinations — the regions, towns and landscapes behind our stories.

Smoke rising from agave hearts roasting in an earth oven at a mezcal palenque in Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca.

People

Artisans, families and the small businesses they keep alive.

Portraits made with time and consent.

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Writers, photographers and storytellers — and anyone who knows a story worth telling.