DARK

Edge of Humanity Magazine

1 year ago

Photographer Verónica Mar is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of these images. From the project ‘The city. The night.’. To see Verónica’s body of work, click on any photograph.

I’ve always surrendered to the city.

Every street, every corner, and every facade captivates me, darkened by the night, illuminated by stars and neon lights…

As if I were always missing exploring it, traversing it, getting to know it deeply.

Conquering it.

Consuming it with walking, and with glances.

And when I walk through it, violent and uninhabitable, it surrenders itself to me, to fragment it, to be with it, to be in it, and it in me.

With me.

To create it and then let myself go.

And lose myself in the light of day.

Verónica Mar (1993, Mexico). Mexican flâneuse, street photographer and visual artist. Her work arises from a psychogeographic vision of the urban territory and its inhabitants.

With the series La ciudad. La Noche. was chosen as one of the winners of The night contest of IMA NEXT (Japan, 2023) and was a finalist in the call for the LENS Photography Scholarship (Spain, 2023). She was winner of the Northern Exposure grant, awarded by the Medium Photo festival (United States, 2024) and the Horizontes Temporales competition, organized by the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (Mexico, 2024). She has been published in the magazines CUARTOSCURO and ASFALTO, as well as in the zine Fotocaminatas #39.

Her works have been exhibited in Mexico, Cuba, Scotland, USA, Chile, Argentina, Spain, Thailand and Italy. She is the author of the photobooks Visiones de la Ciudad (2020) and Ciudad Cielo (2022). She is part of the first Anthology of Street Photography in Mexico (Observadores Urbanos, 2023) and the collective photobook Familiar Strangers (Ephemere, 2024).

She is currently part of the street photography collective Postal 5.6, where she conducts monthly livestreams with international references of the genre.

Location of all images: Monterrey, Nuevo León, México.

All images and text © Verónica Mar