La Mixteca

In this volume, Pedro Meyer immerses us in the Mixteca region of Oaxaca, capturing not only its landscape and people, but also the complex layers of its history: the pre-Hispanic, the colonial, and the contemporary. With migration as the central narrative thread, the book explores the transnational ties that connect Mixtec communities with Fresno, California. Accompanied by texts from curator and filmmaker Trisha Ziff—who documents the Oaxacalifornia phenomenon—and editor Ximena Zampayo, Meyer reflects on how identity is reformulated between two worlds, and how photography has witnessed this constant back and forth. La Mixteca becomes a mirror of resilience and adaptation. It is a visual testimony of families divided by necessity but united by memory, and of a territory that redefines itself through those who leave and those who return. An essential work for understanding the vision of a creator and the transformations of a region with a significant migratory history in Mexico.