In this collection of street photos, photographer Nikhol Esterás Roberts goes Oaxaqueando. She searches for the experience of Oaxaca in faces; in moments; in the spontaneity, surreality, and quiet quotidian poignancy of life in the streets. For so much of life in Oaxaca takes place on the cobblestones and the gray, chicharrin-and-cacahuate-littered plazas: under laurels, at festivals, in the intersection between the sacred and the banal, between people and the streets, and between the private and the public. Roberts’ work, like all compelling street photography, explores these tensions to locate the daily thrum of Oaxacan life. –Sarah
