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CHOLOMBIANOS // Book about subculture in Monterrey Mexico Amanda Watkins / Author and photographer published by Trilce editiones 2014 https://trilce.mx Deborah Holtz

Owner of collection of articles consisting of clothing and escapularios used in the exhibition Cholombianos in Museo de la cuidad / Mexico City 2015 https://www.cultura.cdmx.gob.mx/recintos/mcm

exhibition // Guadalajara Mexico https://www.tripadvisor.com.mx/Attraction_Review-g150798-d12392878-Reviews-Ex_Convento_Del_Carmen-Guadalajara_Guadalajara_Metropolitan_Area.html exhibition // Rich mix London https://richmix.org.uk

Amanda Watkins is known as mexicanaffair on instagram

3rd global conference // Fashion exploring critical issues / Mansfield college September Oxford 2011 https://www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/conferencing

PREVIOUS BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT Colombianos en Monterrey author / Jose Juan Olvera Gudino published 2005 Fondo estatal para la cultura // Conaculta Spanish only

Cholombianos formerly known in Monterrrey as Colombianos From 2007 until 2012 Amanda watkins documented the visual style of the subculture known in Monterrey as Colombianos after visiting the city of Monterrey in Mexico as a visiting professor at Universidad de Monterrey. After studying Fashion at The Royal College of Art 2002-2004 in which she specialised in menswear and took inspiration from street style in London.

Her documentation was created between 2007 until 2013 as an independant study and from personal observations regarding subcultures and street style and over many occasions over this period she explored and discusses in her book Cholombianos and the key elements of the subculture in detail with photographs and was done independently through original sources and observation from her personal point of view. The book includes an essay by the writer as the introduction by Esteban Cardenas The book includes essays and photographs by Leticia Saucedo including a magazine they were creating at the time called Date Tinta The book includes an essay and personal photographs of Celso Pina The book includes interviews with a selected group of the boys from subculture

In 2011 Vice magazine local featured an article and photographs of Amanda watkins entitled Cholombianos. This is a combination of the words Cholo and Colombiano.

http://www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/?pg=2&pt=wo https://www.academia.edu/2356691/Fashion_Exploring_Critical_Issues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-4P1vdrSpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HibYHzQ1tM