Bénédicte Desrus
Documentary Photographer based in #MexicoCity #Mexico • Member of @WomenPhotograph • Available for PhotoAssignments • [email protected]
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Nov 13, 2024 |
niemanreports.org | Bénédicte Desrus
Playing sports isn’t considered part of a woman’s life in traditional Maya culture. But Las Amazonas of Yaxunah, an Indigenous women’s softball team based in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, is challenging those boundaries. The team, which was formed in 2019 and has players between the ages of 13 and 62, has become famous in Mexico for playing barefoot and wearing traditional Mayan dresses known as huipiles.
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Oct 7, 2024 |
niemanreports.org | Bénédicte Desrus
Playing sports isn’t considered part of a woman’s life in traditional Maya culture. But Las Amazonas of Yaxunah, an Indigenous women’s softball team based in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, is challenging those boundaries. The team, which was formed in 2019 and has players between the ages of 13 and 62, has become famous in Mexico for playing barefoot and wearing traditional Mayan dresses known as huipiles.
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Jul 16, 2024 |
americasquarterly.org | Bénédicte Desrus
Reading Time: 3 minutesPhotographs by Bénédicte Desrus / Reporting by Mark VialesThis article is adapted from AQ’s special report on the 2024 U.S. presidential election and its impact on Latin AmericaThe mangrove forests of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula bridge sea with land, stabilizing shorelines, storing carbon and sheltering an abundance of life. In the waters they calm, endangered species like the hawksbill turtle lay eggs, and the crabs and fish that support local livelihoods reproduce.
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Jul 1, 2024 |
rethinkq.adp.com | Bénédicte Desrus |Mark Viales
Covered by improvised protective gear and surrounded by murky marshland, 43-year-old Keila Vázquez Lira sculls a small flat-bottomed boat towards mangrove nurseries like a Venetian gondolier, hoping to restore a crucial ecosystem destroyed by urban development. An extra hat under her sombrero shields her from scorching heat, while wetsuit cuttings insulate her from the waist down when she submerges for several hours.
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Jun 5, 2024 |
niemanreports.org | Bénédicte Desrus
I first discovered Casa Xochiquetzal, a shelter for older and independent sex workers in Mexico City, in January 2008, when I was invited to make a portrait of Carmen Muñoz, the home’s founder, for ELLE Québec magazine. Muñoz, a former sex worker who was married at 12 and a mother by 14, opened the site not just to give destitute women a place to go but also a sense of belonging and dignity.
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