Mary J. Andrade (Day of the dead)

Mary J Andrade has traveled to Mexico every year since 1987 to photograph the mexican day of the dead celebrations. She now has two published bi-lingual books on the subject: Through the Eyes of the Soul and  Day of the Dead in Mexico.
Her work, gives insight into a celebration that some religions may not understand, as well as very well documenting the different traditions that are present in the celebrations.
Her work follows and documents the different areas that go together to form the day of the dead celebrations: (all images by Mary Andrade)
Alters

Flowers

Skull candy and toys

Night Viduls at the cemetry

Andrade is one of the most renound day of the dead photofgraphers and writers.  While i love some of her photos, expesh the close up of the skull candy, the candles in the cemetry at nights with hundreads of candles, and the portraits of the people with the flowers, i also like her photos of the scenes of skeletons in life like situations:

However this year i want to focus more on setup photos, which is helpful as it would be near impossible for me to go to mexico to take documentery style photographs of the day of the dead!

Interview With Mary J Andrade