La mujer murciélago (Bat Woman),

1993

For decades Andrade has documented the vibrant street life in the Zócalo, the bustling central square of Mexico City, relying on natural light to capture the dynamism of an ever-changing city. The photographer captured this reveler during the 1993 Pride parade in Mexico City, at the height of the AIDS epidemic. “My project is to see Mexico City from a very personal point of view,” explains Andrade, “to envision it as if I were making a visual diary, with my comments about politics, womanhood, machismo, religion, traditions, sexual mores, social attitudes, the imagination of the common person, high art, and popular culture. It is not only the city of my daily life, the one I live in as a woman and as a professional photographer, but also the city of my imagination, the protagonist of works of fiction, the scenery where different stories happen at the same time.”