For more than 20 years, photographer Lourdes Grobet has been part of one of the most popular sports in Mexico: wrestling. This photographic project compiles more than 500 images to reveal the fundamental elements of wrestling, highlighting its theatrics and providing a glimpse of this wildly popular ritual by letting the photographs tell the story. A lo largo de 20 anos, la fotografa Lourdes Grobet se ha adentrado en el mundo de uno de los deportes mas populares de Mexico: la lucha libre. Este proyecto fotografico y ...
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For more than 20 years, photographer Lourdes Grobet has been part of one of the most popular sports in Mexico: wrestling. This photographic project compiles more than 500 images to reveal the fundamental elements of wrestling, highlighting its theatrics and providing a glimpse of this wildly popular ritual by letting the photographs tell the story. A lo largo de 20 anos, la fotografa Lourdes Grobet se ha adentrado en el mundo de uno de los deportes mas populares de Mexico: la lucha libre. Este proyecto fotografico y documental recopila mas de 500 imagenes y transmite los elementos fundamentales de la lucha libre: una manifestacion de la cultura popular mexicana originada en la antiguedad, asociada a lo ritual, ligada a lo teatral y profundamente identificada con los fenomenos sociales de la actualidad.
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