NYC 04.14.13

Persian Parade, Midtown

 

 

Wall Street / Times Square

April 1, 2013

 

Wall Street

Staten Island Ferry

 

Left: Armory Art Show, Right: Midtown 

San Miguel de Allende

Far Rockaway

Beauty Pageants

United America Pageant 2010, Austin, Texas

Photos are from an ongoing project about beauty pageants. 

View more work- http://sarayoungphotos.blogspot.com/2010/07/portfolio.html

Photos from archive

SLP, Mexico

Photo from project on mayoral campaign in Xilitla, SLP, 2012.

View more campaign photos- 

http://sarayoungphotos.blogspot.com/2012/06/campaign_20.html

Mexico City 

iPhone photos

 

Central Park

 

Midtown Manhattan

NYC

Far Rockaways after Hurricane Sandy

View from plane window on trip to New York

Dominican Convent - Xilitla, SLP, Mexico

Sisters of the Dominican Convent in Xilitla

The Dominican Monastery of the Saint Dominic Order of 

Preachers was founded in 1972 and started with ten sisters 

who came to Xilitla from Morelia, Michoacan. The primary goal

of the convent is "evangelizing through prayer and example."

The nuns earn money for the convent by selling homemade 

pastries, sweet liquors, and religious objects.  The convent offers 

space to young women interested in living as a nun; the 

youngest nun ever recruited by the convent was a 6 year old orphan.  

 

 

"By learning to wait, he altered his perception of time....

The art is without aim, without intention. Liberate yourself from 

yourself, leave behind everything that you are, everything that you have, 

so that nothing at all is left of you except the tension without the aim....

You must live for the present, because the future moves 

away like the line on the horizon as you approach it. 

To be yourself is to be outside yourself."

-Henri Cartier-Bresson

Xilitla

Jaripeo

Jaripeo, Xilitla, SLP

 

 

Primera Comunión

First Comunion

Every year on August 28th, Xilitla celebrates their patron saint San Agustín

with a variety of events and marches. The following photos are from a special first 

comunion held for roughly 50 children in the days leading up to August 28th. 

At the bottom is a group of portraits of some of the children after

their first comunion at the San Agustín church. I normally don't pose portraits, 

but here I thought it was important to show the children as individuals.

Primera Comunión

Cada año en el 28 de Agosto, Xilitla celebra el día de San Agustín, el Santo Patrón 

del pueblo, con varios eventos y procesiones. Estas fotos son de la primera 

comunión para más de 50 niños en los días antes del 28 de Agosto.

Al fínal, hay un grupo de retratos de algunos de los niños después de la primera comunión

enfrente del Ex-Convento de San Agustín. Normalmente, no hago retratos posados,

pero en este caso, pensé que era importante mostrar a los niños como individuos.