MEDITATIONS
2024
The Photographs of Diego Martinez Chacon
First Edition of 300 copies
Embossed Hardcover
24cm x 31.5cm
220 pages
MEDITATIONS is a 220 page monograph that presents 100 colour and black & white photographs taken by Mexican artist Diego Martinez Chacon during the five year span of 2019-2024 in Barcelona, London, New York City, Brussels and Morocco.
SAUDADE
2021
Saudade: Oaxaca, Mexico
First Edition of 100 copies
Hardcover
11” x 9”
150 pages
Printed in London by PUSH
170GSM Tatami Ivory paper
‘Saudade’ (Portuguese) - a feeling of yearning for that which is not there; implies a sense of sorrow, melancholy and nostalgia.
This work presents a portrait of San Francisco Ozolotepec, a mountainside village deep in the southern region of the Sierra Madre del Sur mountain range in Oaxaca, Mexico. The villages in that area of the mountain range are home to a community of Zapoteco people, whose history as an Indigenous group in Oaxaca dates back far before the Common Era.
A story of both generational strength and loss, Saudade is a glimpse into the changes surrounding the Zapoteco community’s relationship with the land they have lived on for hundreds of years. All shot on 35mm film, the 70+ photographs in this work characterise the power behind the word Saudade through a compelling and honest portrait of the life of the modern Indigenous man in Mexico.
This work presents a portrait of San Francisco Ozolotepec, a mountainside village deep in the southern region of the Sierra Madre del Sur mountain range in Oaxaca, Mexico. The villages in that area of the mountain range are home to a community of Zapoteco people, whose history as an Indigenous group in Oaxaca dates back far before the Common Era.
A story of both generational strength and loss, Saudade is a glimpse into the changes surrounding the Zapoteco community’s relationship with the land they have lived on for hundreds of years. All shot on 35mm film, the 70+ photographs in this work characterise the power behind the word Saudade through a compelling and honest portrait of the life of the modern Indigenous man in Mexico.
PUSH & PULL: THE SUMMER OF 2020
2020
Push & Pull
First Edition of 50 copies
Softcover
8” x 11”
160 pages
Printed in London
Designed and published by New Wave Studios
Editor in Chief: Derrick Odafi
Art Director: Diego Martinez Chacon
Push & Pull: The Summer of 2020 is the first photography publication by London based New Wave Magazine - twelve photographers were given 10 pages to interpret the theme “Push & Pull” - all photographed throughout the summer of 2020.
Featured photographers:
Kareem Abdul, Siam Coy, Elena Cremona, Dimitri D’ippolito, Winston Duke, Abena Lamptey, Yolanda Y. Liou, Diego Martinez Chacon, Zerb Mellish, Latoya Fitoor, Noela Roibas, Eva Watkins
Featured photographers:
Kareem Abdul, Siam Coy, Elena Cremona, Dimitri D’ippolito, Winston Duke, Abena Lamptey, Yolanda Y. Liou, Diego Martinez Chacon, Zerb Mellish, Latoya Fitoor, Noela Roibas, Eva Watkins