Mexico

Día de los Muertos in Oaxaca — not a celebration of death but of living together with the dead. Marigold yellow spills across the streets, candlelight at every grave, family photographs on the stones, music and mezcal in the cemetery at night. Children with skull faces in the streets, catrinas descending from the balconies. A serious lesson to the West's death-denying culture. I spent only a week; two years later these frames are still inside me — what other culture can teach what a culture that lives alongside death already knows.