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Every growing town needs a newspaper, so Mexico City media magnate Juan Santiago Arellano saw that Santa María, while still small, had the perfect mix of growing population and expanding infrastructure, not to mention the unusual politics, that a newspaper would not only be critical in the development of the community, but financially significant. El Banco de Nuevo León agreed and lent him the money and he quickly gathered a news team, a mix of veterans and youthful recruits, eager for more responsibility. Supported by ads from the oil industry and the tourist trade, La Voz de Santa María was born. For the first edition, the front-page headline read: “The Power of Progress.”

Santa Maria de las Rocas collection image

A novella by Nicholas Gill and Alejandro Cartagena.

A collection of 151 “expired photographs” that were thrown out, collected from a tianguis outside of Mexico City by photographer and archivist Alejandro Cartagena and then pieced together and reimagined by writer Nicholas Gill. The 151-page novella tells the tale of the fictional town of Santa María de las Rocas, located in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.

The story traces this coastal community from its humble origins at the turn of the century to the 1980s, as it corresponds to real events in the history of this corner of Mexico. As years pass, the landscape changes and the community grows and develops. There’s corruption and violence, magic and hope. Characters fall in love and fall apart. Their voices are heard. Their songs are sung.

The existence of this project is designed to question the very nature of storytelling and its possibilities in the digital age. As such, it’s done as a CO0, for free public use.

Category Photography
Contract Address0x495f...7b5e
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Token StandardERC-1155
ChainEthereum
MetadataCentralized
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Every growing town needs a newspaper, so Mexico City media magnate Juan Santiago Arellano saw that Santa María, while still small, had the perfect mix of growing population and expanding infrastructure, not to mention the unusual politics, that a newspaper would not only be critical in the development of the community, but financially significant. El Banco de Nuevo León agreed and lent him the money and he quickly gathered a news team, a mix of veterans and youthful recruits, eager for more responsibility. Supported by ads from the oil industry and the tourist trade, La Voz de Santa María was born. For the first edition, the front-page headline read: “The Power of Progress.”

Santa Maria de las Rocas collection image

A novella by Nicholas Gill and Alejandro Cartagena.

A collection of 151 “expired photographs” that were thrown out, collected from a tianguis outside of Mexico City by photographer and archivist Alejandro Cartagena and then pieced together and reimagined by writer Nicholas Gill. The 151-page novella tells the tale of the fictional town of Santa María de las Rocas, located in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.

The story traces this coastal community from its humble origins at the turn of the century to the 1980s, as it corresponds to real events in the history of this corner of Mexico. As years pass, the landscape changes and the community grows and develops. There’s corruption and violence, magic and hope. Characters fall in love and fall apart. Their voices are heard. Their songs are sung.

The existence of this project is designed to question the very nature of storytelling and its possibilities in the digital age. As such, it’s done as a CO0, for free public use.

Category Photography
Contract Address0x495f...7b5e
Token ID
Token StandardERC-1155
ChainEthereum
MetadataCentralized
Creator Earnings
10%
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