Title: Soy una mujer
Description: Includes Spanish text fragments by María Sabina (1894-1985) and an essay by Andrea Jösch Krotki. Design by Claudia Guerra Pino, edited by Andrea Jösch Krotki. Toro Goyaœs photographs are ambrotypes, that is, unique positive photographs on glass plates, as used in the mid-19th century. This is important not only for the picturesœ aesthetic, but also for Toro Goyaœs understanding of his artistic mission. The present edition is a collaborative photographic project with women from the indigenous communities in the region of Araucanía in Chile and the state of Oaxaca in Mexico. The book consists of twenty-seven photographs accompanied by verses by the famous healer María Sabina, who lived in Huautla de Jiménez, a town in the Sierra Mazateca area of the Mexican state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, known for her visionary experiences associated with using peyote (psilocybin) a psychedelic hallucinogeni mushroom.
Subjects: Themes, motives, Artistic Photography, Ambrotype, Women in art, Women, Pictorial works
Places: Chile, Mexico, Oaxaca, Araucanía, Oaxaca (Mexico : State), Araucania (Chile)
People: Mauricio Toro Goya
Time periods: 21st century