Contributors

Josef Kandoll Wepplo

Place of Birth: Washington State, USA

Occupation: Photographer and Writter


Define your art:
Life in images.

Your idea of perfect happiness?
A fulfilling capture (photographically speaking).

What determines your future: Fate or free will?
Free will, with a little fate thrown in to flavor the soup.

Which would you respect, power or wealth?
Power, as long as it’s personal power instead of power over others... Wealth as long as it’s the wealth of a life well-lived.

Are you bound by honour or duty?
Honour takes precedence.

Describe Mexico in one word:
Renaissance.

What do you say when you talk about Mexico? 
I never stop talking about Mexico.

If not Mexico, where? Or: Why Mexico?
Mexico offers the magic combination of creativity, history, people, art and the endless possibilities to experience each one of them every day.

Which national icon most inspires you and why?
Actually, I felt inspired by President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa when I observed and heard him during the WEF that was here in Vallarta this year.

Your news source of choice?
Radio.

What would you say is the best Mexican book/movie/artwork?
Book: An interesting take on history: Arrebatos Carnales, Francisco Martin Moreno.

Movie: La otra conquista, 1998, Salvador Carrasco

Artwork: anything by Rocio Caballero

Describe the perfect Mexican meal:
It varies by season, but I love posole in the chill of winter, enchiladas suizas anytime, menudo on a Sunday morning in López Mateos, tacos de lengua when I’m working late and need something to keep me going...

What makes a country great? 
The material prima, which is the people.

What is Mexico´s greatest challenge?
The complex caused by a history of political authoritarianism that makes it difficult even today to believe that Mexico is such an incredibly great nation. 

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Place of Birth: Washington State, USA

Occupation: Photographer and Writter


Define your art:
Life in images.

Your idea of perfect happiness?
A fulfilling capture (photographically speaking).

What determines your future: Fate or free will?
Free will, with a little fate thrown in to flavor the soup.

Which would you respect, power or wealth?
Power, as long as it’s personal power instead of power over others... Wealth as long as it’s the wealth of a life well-lived.

Are you bound by honour or duty?
Honour takes precedence.

Describe Mexico in one word:
Renaissance.

What do you say when you talk about Mexico? 
I never stop talking about Mexico.

If not Mexico, where? Or: Why Mexico?
Mexico offers the magic combination of creativity, history, people, art and the endless possibilities to experience each one of them every day.

Which national icon most inspires you and why?
Actually, I felt inspired by President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa when I observed and heard him during the WEF that was here in Vallarta this year.

Your news source of choice?
Radio.

What would you say is the best Mexican book/movie/artwork?
Book: An interesting take on history: Arrebatos Carnales, Francisco Martin Moreno.

Movie: La otra conquista, 1998, Salvador Carrasco

Artwork: anything by Rocio Caballero

Describe the perfect Mexican meal:
It varies by season, but I love posole in the chill of winter, enchiladas suizas anytime, menudo on a Sunday morning in López Mateos, tacos de lengua when I’m working late and need something to keep me going...

What makes a country great? 
The material prima, which is the people.

What is Mexico´s greatest challenge?
The complex caused by a history of political authoritarianism that makes it difficult even today to believe that Mexico is such an incredibly great nation. 

Click here to visit his website.