Octavio Hoyos

Photographer
     
Walls of Sea
Projects (34)
Public Project
Walls of Sea
Copyright Octavio Hoyos 2024
Updated Jan 2021
Location Islas Marías, Nayarit
Topics Arrests and Prosecutions, Beachs, Black and White, Civil Rights, Community, Conservation, Crime, Discrimination, Documentary, Editorial, Essays, Family, Film, Freedom, Historical, Human Rights, Incarceration, Isolation, Landscape, Latin America, Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Poverty, Prison, Still life, Travel, Water, Wildlife
Las Islas Marías was a prison complex in Mexico that operated from 1905 to 2019. Located 112 kilometers from the Mexican coast, within the Pacific Ocean it was a feared prison until the current president of Mexico decided to close it to turn it into an ecological reserve for biodiversity research.
This essay is the work of three visits to the penitentiary island where the inmates lived in semi freedom.


    
      
      
      
            
            


                                      
          
          

            
 
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          Propaganda, the waste of democracy.        


        

          

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            Octavio Hoyos / Sinaloa, Mexico
          

        


      
        

    
    
          

        
      

    


                                      
    
  


  




    

              


        

      
      
      

          
        

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          Militarization        


        

          

            Octavio Hoyos / Mexico
          

        


      
        

    
    
          

        
      

    


                                      
    
  


  




    

              


        

      
      
      

          
        

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          History in train cars.        


        

          

            Octavio Hoyos / Santa Lucía Estado de México
          

        


      
        

    
    
          

        
      

    


                                      
    
  


  




    

              


        

      
      
      

          
        

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            Octavio Hoyos / Mexico City, Mexico
          

        


      
        

    
    
          

        
      

    


                                      
    
  
  

  




    

              


        

      
      
      

          
        

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          Cemetery in times of Covid        


        

          

            Octavio Hoyos / Valle de Chalco
          

        


      
        

    
    
          

        
      

    


                                      
    
  
  

  




    

              


        

      
      
      

          
        

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          Epicenter        


        

          

            Octavio Hoyos / Atlautla, Mexico
          

        


      
        

    
    
          

        
      

    


                                      
    
  
  

  




    

              


        

      
      
      

          
        

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          Tepango river.        


        

          

            Octavio Hoyos / Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz
          

        


      
        

    
    
          

        
      

    


                                      
    
  
  

  




    

              


        

      
      
      

          
        

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          Pueblos Unidos        


        

          

            Octavio Hoyos / Michoacan, Mexico
          

        


      
        

    
    
          

        
      

    


                                      
    
  
  

  




    

              


        

      
      
      

          
        

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          Asylum Madre Teresa        


        

          

            Octavio Hoyos / Mexico City, Mexico
          

        


      
        

    
    
          

        
      

    


                                      
    
  
  

  




    

              


        

      
      
      

          
        

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          Jamaica´s fire        


        

          

            Octavio Hoyos
          

        


      
        

    
    
          

        
      

    


                                      
    
  
  

  




    

              


        

      
      
      

          
        

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          covid posters        


        

          

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          Paramedics, the night shift.        


        

          

            Octavio Hoyos / Mexico City, Mexico
          

        


      
        

    
    
          

        
      

    


                                      
    
  
  

  




    

              


        

      
      
      

          
        

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          Weapons of narco.        


        

          

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          Jojutla´s rice        


        

          

            Octavio Hoyos / Jojutla, Morelos
          

        


      
        

    
    
          

        
      

    


                                      
    
  
  

  




    

              


        

      
      
      

          
        

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          PKDF        


        

          

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          Between Sleepers        


        

          

            Octavio Hoyos / Mexico
          

        


      
        

    
    
          

        
      

    


                                      
    
  
  

  




    

              


        

      
      
      

          
        

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          Night Club        


        

          

            Octavio Hoyos / Mexico City, Mexico
          

        


      
        

    
    
          

        
      

    


                                      
    
  
  

  




    

              


        

      
      
      

          
        

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          Chayito Fest        


        

          

            Octavio Hoyos / Mexico City, Mexico
          

        


      
        

    
    
          

        
      

    


                                      
    
  
  

  




    

              


        

      
      
      

          
        

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          Parkour Girl        


        

          

            Octavio Hoyos / San Luis Potosi, Mexico
          

        


      
        

    
    
          

        
      

    


                                    
  


    

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