The Catrina Relief Project.
In Mexico, we celebrate Day of the Dead in Spanish called Día de los Muertos, and the holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died.
This holiday has it origins from the Aztec calendar, the Day of the Dead was on the ninth month of the Aztec calendar. The festivities were dedicated to the goddess known as the "Lady of the Dead", corresponding to the modern Catrina.
The Catrina also known as the Lady of the Dead, was invented in early 1900's, and is the representation of how the Mexican natives were embrace by the French and Europe traditions, also establishing a socioeconomic difference between the Mexican natives and the European culture who conquered Mexico.
In the 1900's and sadly nowadays the social classes are extremely segmented and the highest class is the most fortunate and enjoyed many privileges; to the contrary, the lower classes are nearly invisible, but there is still people who tries to work hard to become visible and reach a medium for a better status quo.
Therefore this project is divided in two sections, this is the section one, and it represents a young lady, who has fought all her life trying to reach to a better status quo, she was a happy joyful person, but the ambition and the greed of reaching that high economic status, made her change, and now that the time has come, she is relief of becoming back again the person who she was.
Model: Mariam Elizondo
MUA: Sarahi Olivares
Styling & Wardrobe: Ari Frias
Photography and Post Production: www.danielyubi.com
Stay tune at the Fan Page for Behind the scenes, lighting diagrams and the section II
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