Benedicte Desrus

LIVING WITH A FOREIGN BODY

Trans women in Mexico City are suffering from ‘modelants disease’ – the devastating result of injecting oils and silicones into their bodies to achieve feminine curves.

Words: Emmanuelle Steels

Photographs: Bénédicte Desrus

WOMEN are being left with horrific rotting sores after injecting oils and plastics in a shocking amateur plastic surgery craze that’s sweeping Mexico.

The terrifying instant beauty trend has thousands of victims in the country, with many dying in agonising pain – “slow torture until death”, in the words of one doctor.

Text by Emmanuelle Steels
Photographs by Bénédicte Desrus

"WORLD'S BLOODIEST JOB"
From murdered kids to rotting gangsters… Mexico’s first ever crime-scene cleaner reveals gruesome reality of his work.

By Rebecca Husselbee
Photograph by Bénédicte Desrus

FORBES WORLD'S BILLIONAIRES LIST
The 12 remaining Mexican billionaires.

By Jonathan Ponciano
Photograph by Bénédicte Desrus

Femicide rates have doubled in Mexico in the past five years. With a climate of impunity for the killers, victims’ families and activists are directing their anger at Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s government.

By JudeWebber
Photograph by Bénédicte Desrus

"YOU KILL A WOMAN HERE AND NOTHING HAPPENS"

"LATAM IN FOCUS: MEXICO'S FIGHT AGAINST FEMICIDE REACHES A BOILING POINT"

#Mexico
In a country where nearly 99 percent of crimes go unpunished, violence against women and the impunity that comes with it are sparking outrage and mobilizations—a movement reflected throughout Latin America.

by Carin Zissis
Photo by Bénédicte Desrus

"SOBREVIVIR AL CUERPO"
La enfermedad por modelantes cobra miles de víctimas en busca de una belleza estética.
Texto: Emmanuelle Steels
Fotografías: Bénédicte Desrus

* Reportage on the devastation caused by injecting foreign substances for cosmetic purposes into the body - in Mexico.

MEXICO
"DREAM TEAM"
Against all odds, Mexico’s women’s national ice-hockey team is skating toward Olympic glory.

Text by Bérengère Sim
Photographs by Bénédicte Desrus

For 8 months, Bérengère Sim and I, followed Mexico’s first and only women’s ice hockey team: the Selección femenil de México de hockey sobre hielo. 🏒

"JETZT PASS MAL AUF, MACHO"

Text by Bérengère Sim
Photographs by Bénédicte Desrus

For 8 months, Bérengère Sim and I, followed Mexico’s first and only women’s ice hockey team: the Selección femenil de México de hockey sobre hielo. 🏒

"EIN HOHER PREIS FÜR WEIBLICHE KURVEN"

Text – Emmanuelle Steels, Greg Zwygart
Fotos – Bénédicte Desrus

“THE UNDENIABLE STRANGENESS OF PHOTOGRAPHY: REPRESENTING WITH DIGNITY”

Panelists: Amber Bracken, Bénédicte Desrus, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Endia Beal, Kali Spitzer, Stephen Mayes.

Moderator: Laurence Butet-Roch

"DREAMING BIG"
Despite numerous obstacles, Mexico’s women’s team is climbing the IIHF ranks. And with the greatest female player of all-time in their corner, the Olympics are in sight.

by Bérengère Sim
Photographs by Bénédicte Desrus

MEXICO CITY—A prominent billionaire ally of Mexico’s president has financial ties to companies that profited from a deal at the center of a burgeoning corruption scandal in the country.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego, who heads a business empire with assets in banking, broadcasting and retail, is linked to Europe-based entities that held large shares of Grupo Fertinal, according to people familiar with the matter and internal corporate documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

by Robbie Whelan
Photograph by Bénédicte Desrus

By 2018, mats of Sargassum had grown into the largest macroalgae bloom in recorded history. An 8,850 km long mass extending from the central Atlantic and Caribbean Sea to West Africa and the Gulf of Mexico. Can scientists find a use for it?

by Alexandra A. Taylor
Photograph by Bénédicte Desrus

Mexikos Eishockey-Spielerinnen

"Jetzt pass mal auf, Macho"
Eishockey in Mexiko? Gibt es. Vor allem die Frauen machen auf sich aufmerksam. Das Nationalteam hat allerdings nicht nur auf dem Eis harte Kämpfe auszufechten.

Text by Bérengère Sim
14 photographs by © Bénédicte Desrus

For 8 months, Bérengère Sim and I, followed Mexico’s first and only women’s ice hockey team: the Selección femenil de México de hockey sobre hielo