Santuarios Paperback – April 16, 2025

Santuariosis a photographic journey into the heart of Mexico City’s most intense cultural devotion: the world of Santa Muerte during Día de Muertos in Tepito. Shot on location in one of the city’s most mythic and misunderstood barrios, this book follows the crowds, rituals, and rising spiritual currents — including the emergence of Ángelito Negro, a newly revered devotional figure shaping the barrio’s evolving faith. These pages capture the faces, altars, and street energy that define this uniquely powerful tradition.Featuring vivid, full-color portraits and atmospheric street scenes, Santuarios documents a celebration where life, death, and faith collide in public space. Devotees, processions, offerings, candles, and makeshift shrines reveal a community bound together by tradition, resilience, and spiritual defiance. The images offer an intimate look at a culture rarely witnessed by outsiders, presented with respect, nuance, and raw visual intensity.Printed in high-quality color on premium paper stock, this photobook is ideal for collectors of street photography, Latin American culture, folk religion studies, travel art books, and anyone fascinated by Mexico’s underground spiritual traditions.Whether you’re drawn by the intensity of the visual storytelling or the cultural significance of the scene, Santuarios is more than a book—it’s an immersive field-trip into a world rarely seen.About the photographers: Michael Carroll and Carlos Dávila have worked for years documenting Mexico City’s ritual subcultures and they both bring a deeply respectful, observational eye to the terrain of Tepito.Product details:• Second paperback edition• 100 pages, full-color, premium photographic paper• Language: English and Spanish• Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 inches• ISBN: 9798275551471 Read more