MEXICO RETOLD — Jérôme Sessini
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Estimated release date: February 2027
Mexico Retold by the Magnum photographer Jérôme Sessini is both a portrait of a city and of the photographer's journey. "I became a photographer in Mexico City."
His fascination quickly gave way to a sense of urgency: he wanted to understand this excessive, violent, contrasting city. He explored its streets, rooftops, and neighborhood arenas, fascinated by its chaos, architecture, and vitality. But above all, he could never look away from the glaring inequalities that mark every corner.
Conceived as a non-linear visual journey, the book is organic, like Mexico City itself: composite, rough, sometimes poetic. It is a personal journey through a fascinating and elusive city-world that has shaped his vision and his way of telling stories.
Jérôme Sessini was born in Vosges, France, in 1968. He is one of the world’s most prolific and respected names working in the sensitive field of conflict zones and has been dispatched to war-torn countries, including Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Libya, for international publications. As well as reporting on the front lines, he has covered social issues such as drug-related violence on the streets of Mexico and anti-government protests in Ukraine. Through his work, he is constantly learning, adapting and evolving.
In 2016, he documented the Kurdish Peshmerga offensive against Islamic State in the city of Bashiq before crossing the region to cover Iraqi forces pushing towards Mosul. In 2017, he traveled to remote villages in Cambodia with Samrith Vaing, documenting the life of indigenous minorities facing forced eviction. Since 2018, Sessini has been documenting the opioid crisis in the United States, where he has traveled to Ohio and Philadelphia to create intimate portraits of the people and places ravaged by drug misuse.
Sessini’s work has been published by prestigious newspapers and magazines, including the New Yorker, Time and Stern. His images have also been shown in multiple solo exhibitions around the world, including at the Rencontres d’Arles, Bibliothèque Nationale François-Mitterrand, French Ministry of Culture, International Center of Photography and the Barbican. Jérôme Sessini is a member of Magnum Photos since 2016.