Leslie Mazoch - Photographer

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.
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.

 
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





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