Toledano’s five-year project was recently released as the book “No Mames,” celebrating joyful and tender moments among the city’s creative LGBTQ community.
On the afternoon photographer Mayan Toledano snapped a playful bedroom portrait of her friends in Mexico City — an image that would eventually become the cover of her first book — one member of the group, Karla, had gotten into an argument with her boyfriend. Toledano, who is primarily based in New York, found a welcoming second home in Mexico City in 2018 through a circle of queer and trans creatives that expanded with each visit.
” One person who appears again and again in “No Mames” is Havi, one of Toledano’s first friends in the city, who also contributed the opening text for the book. In some portraits, Havi is posed, in a pink mini dress or ethereal, glittering gemstone makeup, the tattoo “Te quiero,” or “I love you,” scrawled underneath her eye. Other images are stripped back: Havi held by her boyfriend in a softly lit bedroom, or nude and curled up in the bath.
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