Benedicte Desrus

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

PLASTIC BAG BANS ARE SPREADING. BUT ARE THEY TRULY EFFECTIVE?
By Laura Parker
Lead Photograph by Bénédicte Desrus

MEXICAN BILLIONAIRE SALINAS DELIVERS HOME TRUTHS TO LÓPEZ OBRADOR.

By Jude Webber in Mexico City
Photograph by © Bénédicte Desrus

"I’M SAYING GOODBYE TO MEXICO CITY" by Amanda Cherry
All Photographs by © Bénédicte Desrus

"SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE: MEXICO'S MUXE LOOK BEYOND HISTORIC ROLES."
An indigenous minority faces conflicting attitudes.

By Jude Webber in Juchitán de Zaragoza, Mexico
All Photographs by © Bénédicte Desrus

THE UNDENIABLE STRANGENESS OF PHOTOGRAPHY: REPRESENTING WITH DIGNITY.

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

Moderator: Laurence Butet-Roch.

"Dom spokojnej starości dla prostytutek w Meksyku".

MULTIMEDIA / FOTOREPORTAŻ by Bénédicte Desrus

A WORKING-CLASS SUBURB TELLS THE STORY OF MEXICO'S ELECTION

by Dudley Althaus

Photographs by Bénédicte Desrus for the Washington Post