MEXICO RETOLD — Jérôme Sessini
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Estimated publication date: February 2027
Mexico Retold, by Jérôme Sessini, draws a portrait of the city and retraces the photographer’s own path: “I became a photographer in Mexico City.”
The photographer’s fascination with the Mexican capital soon gave way to a form of urgency: to understand this excessive, violent, contrasted city. Drawn to its chaos, its architecture and its energy, he walks its streets, its rooftops and its neighbourhoods without ever looking away from the deep inequalities that mark the city.
Conceived as a non-linear visual journey, the book is organic, in the image of Mexico City: composite, raw, at times poetic. It is not only the portrait of a city; it is a book about the way a territory intimately shapes a photographer’s eye.
Jérôme Sessini was born in the Vosges in 1968. He is today one of the most widely recognised war photographers. He has worked in Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Libya for international media. Beyond his work on the front line, he is also concerned with social questions such as the violence linked to drug trafficking in Mexico, and protest movements in Ukraine.
In 2016 he followed the Kurdish peshmerga offensive against the Islamic State in the town of Bashiq, before crossing the region to cover the advance of Iraqi forces towards Mosul. In 2017 he travelled to remote villages in Cambodia with Samrith Vaing, documenting the lives of indigenous minorities facing forced evictions. Since 2018 he has been working on the opioid crisis in the United States, notably in Ohio and Philadelphia, where he has made intimate portraits of people and places affected by addiction.
His work has been published in leading media such as The New Yorker, Time and Stern. His images have also been shown in numerous exhibitions around the world, notably at the Rencontres d’Arles, the Bibliothèque nationale François-Mitterrand, the ministère de la Culture, the International Center of Photography and the Barbican. Jérôme Sessini has been a member of Magnum Photos since 2016.