White Jungle
Archival images discovered in the pandemic. Photographic rolls taken in 2003 in the Lacandon jungle. The importance of the archive to rediscovered, over time, the jungle of southern Mexico that has practically disappeared.

August 3rd, 2017
A two-hour nocturnal exposure in Mexico City. As the stars rise, the planes leaving the airport make dots and lines on the photographic film. A few months later, the photograph was transferred to a copper plate, giving the image the graphic texture and the atmosphere typical of the photogravure technique. The piece was part of the individual exhibition "And only the salt remained" held in the cloister of Sor Juana in 2017, where a starry night was imagined when there was no city and there was a lake in the great Tenochtitlán.

Miguel Counahan (b. 1976, Mexico) is an artist and printer. Blending abstraction and tradition, Counahan considers depictions of the Mexican landscape, using historical photographic processes to look at the core tenets of photography in Mexico. He has exhibited his work individually and collectively; in Mexico, Ireland, the United States, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. He was awarded the XVI National Prize for Engraving, and his work is held in the National Engraving Museum and the José Guadalupe Posada Museum collections. In addition, he founded Zopilote studio, dedicated to large-format printmaking techniques and historical photographic processes. He has printed the work of Rodrigo Valenzuela, Jenia Fridlyand, Tufic Yazbec, Eric Taubman, and Graciela Iturbide, among many other artists.

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Specifications / Credits

Title: White Jungle
Year: 2020
Image size: 6 x 7 1/4 in
Paper size: 19 1/4 x 24 5/8 in
Photogravure: Miguel Counahan
Chine collé
Unsigned
Edition: 5
Collection: Miguel Counahan

Title: August 3, 2017
Year: 2017
Image size: 19 1/4 x 24 5/8 in
Paper size: 19 1/4 x 24 5/8 in
Photogravure: Miguel Counahan
Unsigned
Edition: 5
Collection: Miguel Counahan