While I was in Mexico I slipped away from my Day of the Dead workshop to work on a quick collaboration with the hip fashion brand PAY’S from Mexico City. PAY’S genderless style is a creative mash up of Mexican pop culture, Aztec folk art and modern streetwear chic. This is one of the most imaginative and vibrant Mexican brands out there right now.
We shot this in the pine forrest of Ixtepeji, about 1.5 hours from Oaxaca City, during sunset. The forrest is really high in the mountains and the views are breathtaking. Afterwards we all went to SET Underground’s Tierra de los Muertos festival, saw Jan Blomqvist spin, and partied all night long.
Day of the Dead, Oaxaca 2022 - Student Slide Show /
Here is the student slide show from my 2022 Day of the Dead Street Photography Workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico. All the students did great work and we had an amazing exhibition at the end at Central del Arte where lots of people came out to check out our prints. I’d say this was probably one of the best workshops I have run to date with day trips to graveyards and local villages, lectures from top notch Mexican photographers, fabulous food, and of course amazing mezcal.
Day of the Dead Photography Exhibition in Oaxaca at Central del Arte /
Oaxaca 2022 © Chris Suspect
Les esperamos este jueves 3 de noviembre en el Central del Arte ubicado en Murguía 102, Ruta Independencia, Centro Oaxaca. de 7.00 PM a 8.30 PM para la exposición fotográfica con el trabajo producido por mis alumnos durante el taller de este año enfocado en el dia de muertos en Oaxaca. La entrada al evento es gratis y se expondrá fotografía y video, también habra tragos coquetos y estará Sonido San Francisco como nuestro DJ set.
Chris Suspect es un fotógrafo callejero y documental de Washington, DC. Se especializa en capturar momentos absurdos y profundos de la vida cotidiana. Su trabajo de fotografía callejera ha sido reconocido internacionalmente, y se ha exhibido en Miami, Bélgica, Alemania, Italia, Rumania, Georgia, Emiratos Árabes Unidos y Reino Unido.
Join us on Thursday, Nov 3 at Central del Arte, Murguía 102, Ruta Independencia, Centro, in Oaxaca City, Mexico, from 7 -8:30 p.m. for a photography exhibition featuring the work produced by my students during this year's Day of the Dead workshop in Oaxaca. It’s free and there will be photography, a video projection, drinks, and a DJ set by Sonido San Francisco.
Chris Suspect is a street and documentary photographer from Washington, DC. He specializes in capturing absurd and profound moments of everyday life. His street photography work has been recognized internationally, and has been exhibited in Miami, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Romania, Georgia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.
Punk Rock Photography - In Conversation with Alec MacKaye /
The Make*Up at The Black Cat in Washington, DC, May 19, 2019 © Chris Suspect 2022
This coming Thursday, Oct. 6 at 6:30 pm I am excited to announce I will be in conversation with writer and musician Alec MacKaye at the Mt Pleasant Public Library at 3160 16th St., NW, Washington, D.C. The topics of discussion are my work around punk rock photography and our experiences in the DC/punk and hardcore scene. A looping slide show will feature 100 of my images of 70 different bands from the last 12 years.
Alec wrote the intro to my first book Suspect Device that was published in 2014 so we have 8 years of catching up to do!
Below are all the bands that will be featured and a large portion of these images have never been published before.
The event is free. Starts at 6:30 and goes for 1 hour, so please arrive early. Afterwards we can all go to a neighborhood bar in Mt. Pleasant for some food and drink. Details to be posted on the Facebook Event page..
This event is brought to you by the DC Public Library and the DC Punk Archive
Bands (in alphabetical order)
.nobody
Aertex
Airmen of Note
Apocalypse Dudes
BBQT
Black on Black Crime
Bless
Bloodshot Bill
Bust Off
Catharsis
Chain And The Gang
coke bust
Copstabber
CumGirl8
Daddy Long Legs
Daikaiju
Damages
Death Valley Girls
Electric Grandmother
Ethan Spalding and the 422 Band
Gasmask Terror
Gogol Bordelloo
Government Issue
GWAR
HIRS
Homosuperior
I Against Eye
Iron Chic
Korean Gut
Lecherous Gaze
Los Gatos Negros
Loud Boyz
Marginal Man
MellowHype
Misled Youth
Modest Proposal
Neo-Cons
Nervous Impulse
No Man
Priests
PsyOp
Ritchie Ramone
The Scotch Bonnets
Scream
Shark Week
Shawnis and the Shimmers
SHEER MAG
Sissy Spacek
Speedy Ortiz
The Steady 45s
Stout
Striking Distance
Suzi Moon
Teen Cobra
The Crocodiles
The Kickback
The Make*Up
The Nuclears
The Screws
Thelma and the Sleaze
Tim Capello
Total Maniac
Tragedy
Trash Talk
Trunk
Vorlust
War On Women
Wild Anacostias
Zealot R.I.P.
Visions of the Future NFT with Saatchi Art /
Espadín © Chris Suspect 2022
I’m thrilled to announce that I’m part of Visions of the Future, a jury-curated NFT photography auction and exhibition by Saatchi Art NFTs. It opens September 22 online and in person at The Other Art Fair in Los Angeles, Ca.
The concept is to offer a one-of-a-kind—physical and digital—art experience. Each auction winner will receive a framed limited-edition print in addition to ownership of the photography NFT. Two other editions of the print may be redeemed through January 2023 by any subsequent holders of tokens bought on the secondary market.
From over 700 submissions, Saatchi Art's panel of expert jurors selected new works by 50+ fine art photographers from over 20 countries worldwide. Reimaging a future beyond traditional artistic boundaries, the collection of art explores what the future could look like through both utopian and dystopian lenses.
My work/NFT entitled Espadín is a photograph taken in an agave field in Oaxaca, Mexico. It considers the role of climate change, climate change anxiety, our place on Earth, and our responsibilities to our planet in crisis.
While there are at least 30 different types of agaves that can make mezcal, the smokey spirit similar in nature to tequila, Espadín is the only variety that can be cultivated reliably for mass production. In the past 20 years, Oaxaca has become well known internationally for its famed liquor and as a result much of the agricultural land has been bought up and converted for mezcal production by foreigners interested in capitalizing on its potential.
This photograph is part of a larger series entitled "I'll be Your Mirror" that considers the role of humanity's future in environments that have been impacted by human intervention.
Join me on Twitter September 15 at 2pm EST/11 am PST to meet some of the participating artists and learn more about the project.