MontaÑA Roja: CÉSar RodrÍGuez.; Poemas: Hubert MatiúWàA Nolte, Musuk (Ed) Photography

Risograph printed b/w plates (single, double and tryptic), 2 booklets of 30 pages each + 1 booklet of 15 pages all bound together in 3-fold pict wrps, sewn binding. Bound accordian style with selection of poems by Hubert Matiúwaà back to back with photographs by César Rodríguez. This unusually constructed photobook is to document the fast changes to the communities of the Mountain of Guerrero and to understand its displacement, isolation, and poverty, as well as the culture, traditions, economy, and dynamics of power. A man leaves an offering on cross in the Mountains of Guerrero, he does this asking the gods for a better rainy season so he can have a better crop. Montaña Roja is a series of photos about the life in the mountains of the state of Guerrero, in Mexico. Most of these communities grow, harvest and sell poppy to the Mexican cartels, which they later will make opium. Deep in the mountain zone of Guerrero state, with destroyed dirt roads and in some cases without even dirt roads, there are hundreds of people living day by day. There are no jobs, no schools and very few opportunities for the people living in these communities. The series of photos is a wide view of the life around these communities. In some of them the cartels have arrived creating violence and communities had to rise up against them, in others, the life goes on like usual. For them poppy is just a crop that feeds them but it is also threatening their lives. LIMITED EDITION 500 (Now out-of-print). Biography: César Rodríguez, born in Tepic, Nayarit on 1983. Studied photography at México City. Has taken workshops with: Mary Ellen Mark, Jaime Permuth, Javier Arcenillas, Narciso Contreras, Andrew Lichtenstein, David Franco, among other great photographers, recently he was under the knowledge of Maggie Steber for the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop. During December 2014 and January 2015 and from May 2015 to September 2015 he was Photographer Matt Black s assistant for the projects: The Monster in the Mountains and The Geography of Poverty. His work has been exhibited in places like: Berlin, London, Biel, Silicon Valley, Bogota, Buenos Aires, New York, New Orleans, California, China, Sydney, Morelia, Nayarit, Aguascalientes, Queretaro, Guadalajara and México City His work has been published on: The New York Times Lens Blog, MSNBC, Buzzfeed, CBS, El Pais, Le Monde, Huffington Post, The Guardian, LA Times, Washington Post, Milenio, El Universal, LAT Photo Magazine, La Jornada, PDN online, BBC News, Cuartoscuro(México), City Zine(china), VICE(Us and México), ShooterMag(Spain), Revista 192(México) and TheTripMag(Italy-Web), Terra(Brazil-Web), Urbanautica(web), Fototazo(web). Video contributor for Matt Black s video The Monster in the Mountains, for the New Yorker. PUBLISHER KWY Ediciones is a Peruvian publisher founded in 2013 as an independent platform for Latin American authors to promote encounters and dialogues with the artistic expressions that are linked to the photographic medium. We believe that the printed work is an act of resistance. LIMITED EDITION OF 500.