A ‘bird of Mexico City’ strikes a revolutionary pose: Pieter Henket’s best photograph (opens in new tab)

‘In Mexico, which has a strong macho culture, the lucha libre wrestling mask is a symbol of masculinity. Ixchel was taking that back’I took this picture, called La Mujer [The Woman], on the very first day of a project called Birds of Mexico City. I remember thinking, in that moment, that this is one of those rare pictures where you know immediately something special is happening.But the story really began earlier, with a project called Birds of New York. During the first Trump administration,...