Alejandro Rivera

This is a great idea to keep the young professionals in Cleveland, Ohio.

What do you know about Cleveland?

Find out in Got City Game.

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This is one of the deepest  and more beautiful celebration in Mexico.

It has so much importance in the Mexican culture than Octavio Paz, novel price of literature 1990, dedicated one chapter on his essay “The Labyrinth of Solitude”.

Now this tradition is also here in Northeast, Ohio.

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 The day of the Dead celebration is going to be this weekend at the beautiful and renovated street of Detroit Shoreway area, West side, Cleveland.

This is an ancient, deep, color full, spiritual, latino, fun, beautiful, cultural, … etc., etc.  Festivity.

Be part of it.

Visit the official site to see the program: Diadelosmuertosohio.com

This year is the fifth anniversary of this event, here at Cleveland, Ohio.

Check the book that I made to celebrate all this community effort.Blog.AlexRiveraPhotography.com/DDbook

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 Some African American communities have been revitalizing this 19th century tradition at wedding ceremonies in the US. Among all the symbolism that this practice holds, I can, in some ways, relate it to my own practice of my ancestors’ traditions.  Take a look at the final album of these newlyweds.

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     It has been five years since Tom and Susana Evert and my wife, Jeanne, and I started the Day of the Dead celebration in Cleveland, Ohio as a big multimedia and grant-funded event. I am glad that some others friends continue with the tradition here in Northeast Ohio. Please visit this link to see five years of my work documenting this group effort of beautiful, unique, spiritual and Mexican tradition.Click on this link to see the gallery: Blog.AlexRiveraPhotography.com

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I was talking  with a friend after the parade the circle, she is an artist and she has been part of the parade for several years now.It was good to know that after all this party full of color, they went down from two big dumpster containers to half of one.They start to recycle everything. Visit the full gallery at:Blog.AlexRiveraPhotography.com/PC  

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Could you approach photography as you approach drawing?I think so, being an observer of lines, shadows, forms, etc. I had fun on this event at Tremont, Cleveland, Ohio.The event was call “Drawn and Quartered” at Asterisk Gallery.Visit the link to see all my “photo sketching”. http://Blog.AlexRiveraPhotography.com/AG   

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