Photographer captures boxing culture in México to connect with his roots

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From a collection of 25,000 photographs captured over a period of two years, David Hanes-González presents 28 that capture the soul of boxing in México.

As a first-generation Mexican American documentary and lifestyle photographer, David Hanes-González uses his camera as a tool to understand and strengthen his roots.a project that documents the passion and love that goes into the boxing community of Mexico City for two years, a period of time in which David lived in México for the first time.

As an adult, he used his camera to bridge that gap, to understand that part of his identity outside of Chicago as a concert photographer for Tiny Desk's residentis a combination of his love of boxing, a sport he was first introduced to in Chicago by his father, who would take him to amateur fights as a teenager and later trained as an adult.

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