Photo: (Above) Sidewalk outdoor wall art in Isla Mujeres, near Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico
A Sampling of the Wonderful Outdoor Sidewalk Wall Street Art of Cancun & the Maya Riviera, Mexico
My lack of any photographic travel during the new Covid-19 era of 2020 has been getting to me. To stay on the positive side of things, I’m catching up on a few older projects. Also, I’m looking forward to processing and sharing images that have been sitting idle on dusty hard drives. First up: A delightful array of interesting street art and outdoor wall art murals encountered over the course of several trips to the Mexican state of Quintana Roo on the Yucatan Peninsula. Among the locations represented below are works of street art from places like Cancun, Playa del Carmen, Cozumel, and Isla Mujeres.
Of these places, Isla Mujeres was like a large community outdoor artwork gallery. The island is a popular tourist destination, primarily from day-use visits via a short ferry ride from the nearby resort city of Cancun. Some companies even offer guided artwork tours through the island’s various neighborhoods. But even if you just walk through the main tourist area near the ferry dock in Playa Norte, you’ll see plenty of walls decked out with some really wonderful works of outdoor street art. I hope you enjoy these great displays of street art as much as I did.
*Please note: These images are presented solely for your personal viewing pleasure and are not available for sale as prints or for any commercial use.
Many thanks again for taking a moment to enjoy these images. If you’d like to leave a comment below, I’d love to hear which one you liked the most.
Cheers,
~ Gary.
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Gary Crabbe is an award-winning commercial and editorial outdoor travel photographer and author based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, California. He has seven published books on California to his credit, including “Photographing California; v1-North”, which won the prestigious 2013 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal Award as Best Regional title. His client and publication credits include the National Geographic Society, the New York Times, Forbes Magazine, TIME, The North Face, Subaru, L.L. Bean, Victoria’s Secret, Sunset Magazine, The Nature Conservancy, and many more. In 2018, The USPS selected a nearly-unprecedented seven of Gary’s photographs to become U.S. Postage ‘Forever’ Stamps as part of the O Beautiful collection. Gary is also a photography instructor and consultant, offering both public and private photo workshops. He also works occasionally as a professional freelance Photo Editor.
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Impossible to choose a favorite, they are all so wonderful, brilliant. There is so much spirituality in them. It shows clearly that art is deeply imbedded within the human soul. You don’t find copies of the Wall Street Journal deep in the ancient caves or carved into the rocks… art just bursts forth, spontaneously, from the spirit within, if we let it.
These images brightened up my day, especially the shark in fantasyland, which resembles colorful tile work, and the jaguar/man, which suggests deep animal-human connections. Thanks for sharing these.