A meal in San Cristóbal de la Casas Chiapas

These pictures represent one of many Mexican kitchens - this is a kitchen where 125 children have breakfast, lunch and dinner on a daily basis. The kitchen is part of the Social Integration Center #30 in San Cristóbal de la Casas Chiapas.

















Native children from poor families and from various communities come to this important touristic site in Chiapas to learn how to read and - if they are lucky- to stay there for several years. Their teachers and the "maestro chefs" become their second parents and their friends - without their solidarity and cooperation the childrens lives would be even harder. Today I share with you a meal - one of many served during the year- a meal that not many people are aware of exists. / Raùl Ortega














Estas imágenes representan una de las tantas cocinas mexicanas, esta es una cocina donde desayunan, comen y cenan 125 niños diariamente, una cocina que es parte del Centro de integración social # 30 en San Cristóbal de la Casas Chiapas, donde niños indígenas de muy bajos recursos y de diversas etnias y comunidades, llegan al municipio turístico mas importante de Chiapas a aprender sus primeras letras, y quedando ahí, si hay suerte, por varios años, donde los profesores y las "maestras cocineras" se vuelven sus segundos padres, sus compañeros de vida, donde sin solidaridad y cooperación la vida seria aún mas dura.

Hoy compartimos con ellos y con ustedes una comida, una de las tantas que se sirven durante todo el año y que casi nadie sabe de su existencia.
All photos and text ©Raùl Ortega

kitchen skolnyik

Photo: Emese Altnöder

postcard from: Chattanooga, Tennessee

Photo: Rhonda Prince

Postcard from: Yngveland

another mobile home

Photo: Ulla Larsson

mobile home

Photo: Markus Jenemark

Postcard from: Uppsala

invited guest (docu 08): Kevin C. Downs

This work is of the Chinese New Year's parade in New York's Chinatown. A community that was devastated after 9/11 and is slowly bouncing back. They are part of a series of ongoing projects I am working on about the disenfranchised working class of New York City and their struggles to survive in a hostile environment that is ravaged by high rents, high cost of food and lack of services. In my projects, I try to always show the dignity of the people I am shooting and make you feel that you are in their presence and you can hear them share their stories of their life with you.

Kevin C. Downs

invited by Joanna

winterhouse

Photographer: GC

Postcard from: an undisclosed location

photo submitted by Nurse Rabbit, who is on safari in a very dangerous place which cannot be revealed.

Postcard from: Maine

photo: jeanne wells

postcards from: Gliwice

you may think this is an obsession, no this is almost my home now :)

postcard from: Stockholm

Inviting you to send postcards from the city, town or village where you live. So, no postcards from your holidays, please. This project will be labelled "postcard from:" and will probably exist as long as the F blog exists? Stay tuned to F - the world wide channel.

casa

Photographer: Raùl Ortega

Mannequins

photographer: Agnieszka Gomolla

attention

Photo: Tatiana Bitir

Someone to lean on

William Schmidt on Kerouac's road (3)

continuation of Bill Schmidt's saga from 1975; see also William essay about those pictures

needful things

Photo: Rhonda Prince

Face to face (92)

Home on the street
Photo: Benny Persson

house on house

Photo: Benny Persson

Three houses

Photographer: Jan Buse

Neighbours

"It's the house facing my windows, in the backyard. I must have taken hundres of images of it, some for trials, some others ... I can't say. It's there right now, while I'm writing this message, under heavy rains. The fabulous thing is that for a bunch of days my house at dawn cast its shadows on it.
What I only realized few days ago is that the silhouette of my roof matches with the countour of its windows."
photo: Tiberio Fanti

Jan Bernhardtz, photographer

"I find it difficult writing about myself. There is nothing special about my life. But I'll give it a try. In the beginning of 1960's I borrowed my father's camera to learn how to use one and to understand how to expose a film. I started to explore the art of photography. I spent some time at the photographic school where Christer Strömholm was headmaster."



When trying to make a living as a photographer I discovered that it was more important to be a skilful businessman than an artist and I was a lousy businessman. I earned my living working at a hospital and later for an electronic company. For many years I hardly touched a camera. Most of my images presented here were made in the years 1968-73.

Now I feel a period of revival regarding photography. A political awareness mixed with humour are important ingredients and I suppose many of my images contain a certain amount of bizarre surrealism.

I sometimes think about the images I never took during those years..."
/Jan Berhardtz




You may have seen the Bengt Björkbom Archives or the William Schmidt Archives here on the F Blog. This is our way of presenting photographers or photos that will not fit to just a single blog post or as a guest invitation. We dedicate the "Archives" to longer series or to an extended presentation of a photographer that we appreciate. I am glad to see Jan Bernhardtz taking part in this effort, and I hope he will share a lot more of his work here./Ulf