The Chosen Ones

In November 1901, the police illegally raided a private home in Mexico City where a high-society party was under way. Nineteen guests were dressed in “feminine” clothing, including the son-in-law of the Mexican president. It was the first time that homosexuality was openly discussed in the national press, and the scandal remains famous to this day.

Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl is a place like no other. Fershow resides there, and it’s there that he stages most of his photographs. He uses his friends as models, making every session like a party.

The "perpetual ice", or glaciers, will only last for 10 more years in Mexico. Tania Ximena goes to the Iztaccíhuatl volcano to document the ice formations, later reproducing them and creating a mausoleum for a world in transformation.