At the FIL book fair on Wednesday, December 3rd, some of the ARLIS/Texas-Mexico chapter members met Clemente Orozco and his business partners/friends at his small press booth, Taller Ditoria. After looking at the different handmade books they were exhibiting, Clemente introduced us to his friend, Nicola Lorusso, an Italian-born commercial photographer. Lurosso now lives and works in Mexico. He showed us a CD collection of his photographs which included an interesting series of road photographs. He also has a collection of photographs published in the book Historia de la Construcción del Palacio de Bellas Artes (INBA, 2004) featuring his view of the Palacio de Bellas Artes in contemporary times. He told me that he uses a Mamiya 7, medium format film camera for his photography, rather than digital format. It was a pleasure to meet Lurosso and have the chance to look at his portfolio.

~Submitted by Tara Spies