Destination: Oaxaca, Mexico

Marcela Taboada was born in Puebla, Mexico, the daughter of a pilot and grandniece of an astronomer. A self-taught photographer, she learned how to take pictures on weekend jaunts with her father, who flew her and her siblings to explore surrounding towns. After graduating with a B.A. in Graphic Arts from the University of the Americas A.C., she initially worked at a design firm. Her career as a photographer began when she started documenting the nursing home where her great-aunt was living, and she would go on to photograph subjects as diverse as the Oaxaca Guerreros AAA baseball team, Indonesia, and the women of a Oaxacan town called San Miguel Amatitlán, who rebuilt their town after a devastating earthquake. Her work has appeared in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, including Cuartoscuro, México Desconocido,Elle Décor, Hasselblad Forum, GEO Germany,and the New York Times. She has lived in Oaxaca, Mexico since 1986.