Jack Martin

“The only thing he couldn’t be sure about — and it worried him—was if it still ran in his character to get lucky” - Richard Ford, The Ultimate Good Luck.

Oaxaca - Day of the Dead

I scanned a handout, seizing on attending Comparsa Infantil in Colonia Dolores, Mexico. No one at the hotel knew where it was. The taxi driver asked if I really wanted to go so far.  I did, and once there, I joined a procession, mostly costumed children and their parents. Every so often, we would stop, and people would shower us with candy and treats. And when it finished after 3 hours, a bigger one began. Mostly masked or costumed adults.  A band played, and there was dancing, food, and drink. These photographs are a record of that afternoon and night. I still don’t know where in Oaxaca, Colonia Dolores is.

Jack Martin is a music and documentary photographer based in Toronto. A long-time member of Gallery 44, he has exhibited in several Contact shows beginning in 1998. Two series, “Mexican Photographs” and “Jesus Rides the Bus: Pictures from El Salvador,” were shown at Toronto’s 52 Inc. His music photography was the subject of a profile in Taddle Creek Magazine, and his photographs have also appeared in Photo Life, Outpost and Queen’s Journal Magazine. In addition to his printed work, he maintains an online presence as sevres-babylone on Flickr and Instagram and on his music photography blogs. Photographic projects have taken him to Haiti, Bolivia, Argentina, India, and especially Mexico, but these days he is more likely to be found in Toronto’s music venues, camera in hand.

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Contact: sevres.babylone@gmail.com
Website: sevres-babylone.com
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May 15 to May 26th, 2024
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