These photos capture moments of beauty and surprise in Mexico City

Co-edited by Nan Goldin, Órale: Love and Death in Mexico City is the only photo book by the late Michel Hurst. Here, his partner Robert Swope discusses Hurst’s work and their decades-long love affair

These photos capture moments of beauty and surprise in Mexico City

ÓRALE: Love and Death in Mexico City

“The best portrait photographers have a kind of mysterious connection with the people that they’re photographing. You can’t fake that; you either have it or you don’t,” says Robert Swope. Órale: Love and Death in Mexico City, a new book of photography by his late partner Michel Hurst, is a testament to this idea. Shot in the Mexican capital over the course of around six years, there is an intimacy to the photographs, which find their subjects peeringhellip;

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