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HA NOI — A photo exhibition, Mexico, Country of Colours, opens in Ha Noi today, hosted by the Mexican Embassy. The exhibition is by author and photographer Ricardo Espinosa and features 30 large photos (1.2m by 1.7m) taken during the past 10 years.
The exhibition allowed viewers to feel the intensity and the power of the natural scenery, monuments, architecture, art, festivals and the popular traditions of Mexico, said Mexican Embassy charge d'Affairs Sergio Rivadeneyra Martell.
Espinosa was born in Mexico City in 1958, studied Graphic Design in the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City and worked in photography for more than 25 years.
He has been professor of photography in the Universidad Iberoamericana since 1985.
Espinosa does corporate, advertisement and commercial photography and is director of Spanish-language photography portals: www.antecamara.com.mx. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in Mexico.
"The panoramic photography work I have been doing for the last 10 years is mainly focused on interior and exterior spaces in Mexico," Espinosa said.
"I do not see it only as a record of the landscape or description of these places, but also as the portrait of inner personal landscapes.
The archaeology, the deserts, the shorelines, the mountains are somehow self portraits, moods and spiritual searching," he said in a statement.
The photos have been exhibited in South Korea, Ulan Bator, Shanghai and Tokyo, Sydney and Singapore.
The colours of Mexico will be on show at the National Library of Viet Nam, 31 Trang Thi Street, Ha Noi, until next Friday.
Also on the occasion, a book collection of literature and academic works by Mexican artists and scholars will be presented to the National Library of Viet Nam through the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. — VNS