PIETER HENKET - THE OBSERVER

The Grid: Faces of Freedom in Mexico
Tara Joshi, The Observer, April 19, 2026

Dutch photographer Pieter Henket has long been interested in people who express themselves beyond society’s unspoken rules. His new book, Birds of Mexico City – named for his subjects finding their own sense of freedom – is the result of close collaboration with stylist Chino Castilla and young local creatives, examining queerness and transformation. These figures, channelling both Catholic and indigenous Mexican symbolism, pose in thoughtfully selected garments, powerful and dignified in the light.

 

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