María Inés García Mendizábal is a Mexican travel photographer and visual documentarian. Across five continents she follows people in the act of inhabiting and looking at the places they visit, capturing the contemporary ritual of the cultural encounter.

Her eye moves between two scales with equal ease. On the large one, she frames the monumental and the landscape with a telephoto lens, isolating anonymous figures against dunes, mist, and sunsets. On the small one, she waits for the light on a dewdrop, a fish breaking the surface of the water, or a statue half-hidden in the foliage. She works with difficult natural light —backlight, rain, haze, the golden hour— and builds from it a restrained, melancholic atmosphere that runs through all her work.