Families bring food and drink and sit down to share a meal and celebrate with their dearly departed.
It is all a part of the mystical Dia De Los Muertos, celebration in Mexico which 18 Texas photography students and two professors from Plano have caught on film. These captured images are now on exhibit at the Center for Contemporary Arts in a photo documentary that officially opens Thursday. It will be on display at the Center for Contemporary Arts through the end of February and will be exhibited next October at the Photographic Archives in Dallas. Dia De Los Muertos is a three-day festival observed mostly in Mexico, but in Hispanic communities in the United States, as well. The celebration is a combination of the ancient pagan harvest festival, All Souls Day, Halloween and All Saints Day, at which time ancestors are remembered and revered.