Eric Jervaise, french-born photographer living in Mexico City shares his "expanded view" in this splendid compilation of panoramic pictures.

A "widened" vision of 21st Century Mexico City, is brought to us with these pictures of markets, streets and squares photographed with a 19th Century camera. The original film format is no longer available, so Eric Jervaise himself built 120 mm film holders to be able to achieve these rich and descriptive images.

From crowded downtown Mexico City streets to nostalgic views from building tops, this book tells us the wonderful stories of what this great city was, is and will be.

"...A black backpack keeps the Panoram-Kodak safe, while Eric crosses from one corner to the other; he watches the movement and comes back to the same place from where he departed. He looks at the semaphores and pre-visualizes two converging movements: the people cross and the cars advance. Then he runs quickly and he stands up amidst the automobiles, he raises the box and he brings it down again: he caught up to see a taxi crossing. Eric doesn’t like taxis, even though they always end up appearing in his images. After traversing another block, and in the middle of another street, he raises the camera over his head in the exact moment when a car is half a meter on the brink of running over him. He brings the camera down, and in a hop, he reaches the sidewalk just in time to avoid the car..."

José Antonio Rodríguez
(Introduction fragment)

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