He says that it was a long time ago when he first discovered Temoaya, a mainly rural community that belongs to one of the 125 municipalities of the State of Mexico.
He remembers that he accompanied his father at the age of eight as they inaugurated the Otomi Ceremonial Center.
He comments that Temoaya was established in his memories, the same ones that now make up the photographic memories of Gustavo Graf, who is currently a freelance photodocumentary filmmaker from the City of Mexico.
Temoaya was a trip that left its mark on the childhood of the person who 24 years later returned to the municipality to finish the task that was left pending.
And it is that in 1996, once working as a professional photojournalist with Marco Antonio Cruz at Imagen Latina, Gustavo Graf decided to return to one of his most ambitious projects, which he now captures in his most recent book. our fire with material dating back to 1997 that shows the religious syncretism experienced by the Otomi H h community of Temoaya.
Graf photographed under his lens during a day with the help of Father Silvestre each of the festivities of the Otom community, but this work remains the story of the photodocumentary filmmaker,