A street in Mexico with a fuchsia house and a green Volkswagen Beetle.

Colour and nature on the road — Mexico, 2023

Where the Present
Happens

It is when you stop planning and let yourself go that you discover the true beauty surrounding you. The here and now is no longer an abstract concept or a lesson to be learned, but simply life.

You immerse yourself in the warmth of the people, the green of the landscape and the thrill of not always knowing where you are, while knowing that right there you are living your present.

Streets and presence

Colourful façades on a Mexican street with a woman walking past.

A colourful street with strings of lights suspended across the historic centre.

An inner courtyard with arches and columns in a historic building.

A partly open blue door with warm light filtering through.

A backlit beach with a figure seated beneath a shelter.

Ruins and memory

Maya ruins seen from below, with three people standing along the upper edge.

A Maya pyramid photographed from below with grass in the foreground.

A large stone staircase at a Maya archaeological site.

Ruins surrounded by greenery with two children walking nearby.

A tree and Maya ruins immersed in the forest.

The cliffs of Tulum, with the sea and a temple in the distance.

Water, forests, encounters

A channel through the mangroves seen from a boat.

Birds perched in a tree beside the water.

Houses and small fishing boats along a stretch of water.

A pale pink lagoon beneath a clear sky.

Waterfalls and a turquoise river surrounded by forest.

A small, brightly coloured bird perched on a branch.

Close-up of a colourful toucan among the branches.

A Maya ruin overlooking the sea through branches and vegetation.

Among colour, nature and the unexpected, the journey ceases to be a route to control and becomes a full, direct way of inhabiting the present.