Pablo Ortiz Monasterio: Tenochtitlan

Monasterio’s speculative photo series imagines the Mexico City that might have emerged without colonization

Pablo Ortiz Monasterio (born 1952) offers a photographic perspective of Mexico City that captures its pre-Hispanic and colonial past through its surviving archaeological and architectural remnants. Tenochtitlan, once a metropolis of a different kind, now stands as a modern city, layered over the remains of an ancient civilization.