Mariachis on Grima's 80th
Stefano Castro
Mariachis on Grima's 80th, 2023
Photography
© Stefano Castro, 2023
Photographer Stefano Castro places his family in the front row, their backs to us as a mariachi band fills the night, faces abstracted by motion. The scene leans on aural memory, a celebration carried by association, and the steady comfort of being surrounded, of showing up together. An oversized 80 floats behind the musicians in honor of a new octogenarian, a clear understanding that longevity, like most things that matter, deserves a full band, not a solo act. Send this to the elder who never turned down the volume on living, and never asked the room to either.
Mariachis on Grima's 80th
Stefano Castro
Mariachis on Grima's 80th, 2023
Photography
© Stefano Castro, 2023
Photographer Stefano Castro places his family in the front row, their backs to us as a mariachi band fills the night, faces abstracted by motion. The scene leans on aural memory, a celebration carried by association, and the steady comfort of being surrounded, of showing up together. An oversized 80 floats behind the musicians in honor of a new octogenarian, a clear understanding that longevity, like most things that matter, deserves a full band, not a solo act. Send this to the elder who never turned down the volume on living, and never asked the room to either.