TIFA 2024 Editorial / Sports

Junkyard

  • Prize
    Gold in Editorial/Sports
  • Jury Top 5 Selection
  • Photographer
    Cristopher Rogel Blanquet
  • Agency / Studio
    Freelance
  • Technical Info
    Digital Photo
  • Photo Date
    2022

The junkyard is a work that documents Mexican Extreme Wrestling, in a junkyard on the outskirts of Mexico City. The site is located in an area with high crime rates. Assaults, homicides, robbery of businesses, public transportation, lack of water, are constant in the vicinity of the junkyard The extreme violence presented in the show serves as a catharsis for the attendees to forget the violence they live with every day.