Sol y Sombra

Chaquetillas

Souvenir miniature chaquetillas, and montera keychains, for sale outside the Tlaxcala bullring.

Photographed in November 2016.

Gerardo Sánchez

Gerardo Sánchez, then a novillero (now a matador de toros), faces the novillo Tepipiani from the ganadería Tenexac.

Photographed in Tlaxcala on November 20, 2016.

Chaquetillas

Souvenir chaquetillas, outside the bullring in Tlaxcala, Mexico. Photographed on November 19, 2016.

Rafa Serna

Spanish novillero (now matador de toros) Rafa Serna warms up with his capote in Tlaxcala, Mexico, during the bullfight of November 20, 2016.

Rafa Serna

Spanish matador Rafa Serna took his alternativa in 2017. I saw him perform twice as a novillero in 2016, once in Ronda, Spain, and once in Tlaxcala, Mexico.

Here he awaits the entrance of the matadors in Tlaxcala, during the bullfight of November 20, 2016, at the Plaza de Toros Jorge Aguilar Ranchero.