Janett Santillan Hernandez - Escaramuza Dressmaker

Photo by Leslie Mazoch

Janett Santillan Hernández
Zumpango, Mexico State, Mexico
Cell: 55.1913.2466
E-mail: excaramuzamexicana@yahoo.com.mx

Janett Santillan Hernandez graduated with a university degree in fashion design in 1993. Ever since she proposed to make the dresses for her escaramuza team, the Anahuac de Tecamac, her designs have focused on "charras," Mexico's female horse riders of charreria.

Santillan's father makes traditional charro hats and her brother makes boots especially for escaramuza riders. Santillan's shop is located in Zumpango, a city in the state of Mexico.

Patricia Dealba Gonzalez - Escaramuza Dressmaker

Photo by Leslie Mazoch

Patricia Dealba Gonzalez
Mexico City
Cell 044.55.3445.6236
From outside Mexico +52.155.3445.6236

Patricia Dealba Gonzalez made her first "adelita" dress in 1988 for her daughter. It was a miniature version of the uniform worn by the members of the escaramuza team "Las Calandrias" at her rodeo club Carlos Rincon Gallardo. People noticed her daughter's dress and began contracting her to sew their daughters' dresses. Little by little the creation of dresses for escaramuza riders became her business.

Dealba Gonzalez has designed outfits for many escaramuza teams and designed over a dozen dresses in 2010 especially for the "Queen of the Mexican Charro Federation," Laura del Bosque.

Photo gallery of Dealba Gonzalez at her design studio

Leslie Mazoch - Photographer

Photo by Leslie Mazoch

Leslie Mazoch, from Dallas, Texas, moved to Mexico City in 2007 to work as a photo editor at the international news agency the Associated Press (AP). This is where she saw an escaramuza for the first time and fell in love with Mexico's national sport of charreria.

Mazoch's documentation of this female sport was honored with awards from the National Press Photography Association (NPPA) in the U.S.

Sport photo essay, 2nd place. NPPA

Sports audio-slide show, 3rd place. NPPA

 
A Mexican book publisher is working with her to launch a book of her photographs and interviews on the escaramuza in 2012.

www.lesliemazoch.com





Whatch this audio-slide show about the history of the Escaramuza

Chico Sanchez - Photographer

Photo by Chico Sanchez

Chico Sanchez is a professional photographer from Andalusia, Spain who began documenting Mexico's traditions when he moved to Mexico City in 2007.

Sanchez's audio-photo essay on the country's national sport of charreria, titled Man and Horse, which includes the female escaramuza discipline, was honored with an award from the prestigious photojournalism organization, National Press Photographers Association, (NPPA) in the U.S.

Don't miss his audio-photo story on an escaramuza rider who practices horse assisted therpy, known as equine therapy or hippotherpy, titled Natural Healers.

To purchase his images, enter in Aurora Photos and Alamy.

www.chicosanchez.com

 Man and horse charreria audio-slide show

Natural Healers, equine therapy audio-slide show

Emilio Garcia Salazar - Graphic Designer

Art piece by Emilio Garcia Salazar

Emilio Garcia Salazar, author of the image at left of an escaramuza rider, is a graphic designer from Mexico who transforms his photographs into colorful, fresh paintings.

Mexico's famed Ballet Folklorico counts on Garcia's talent to direct their public commercial image and many individuals hire him to create one-of-a-kind portraits.

To see more of his work, enter in his website

Garcia, who lives in Mexico City, is also the director of the design company Enlace Design along side his wife Gabriela San Roman and teaches graphic design.

Contact: emil@enlacedesign.com 



Photo gallery of Emilio Garcia working in his studio