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"El Suplicante" is a photobook by Paolo Gasparini (1934-), an Italian-born photographer based in Venezuela. Since moving to Venezuela in the 1950s, he has been one of the leading photographers in the region, observing the complex realities of Latin America—urbanization, poverty, politics, religion, and consumer society—from the streets. He is also known for combining photographs, text, and graphics, constructing photobooks themselves as social critiques. This work compiles photographs taken in Mexico over more than 30 years, from 1971 to 2007. Traveling from Mexico City to the US border region and Chiapas, he captures religious rituals, political protests, Zapatistas, street vendors, advertisements and posters, and lettering on walls with a keen eye. A distinctive feature is the composition, which highlights how modernity and tradition, faith and politics, wealth and poverty overlap in the same urban space through a series of photographs and their clashes. The book also includes text by Mexican writer Juan Villaro. This is an important work that encapsulates Gasparini's methodology, which has gone beyond mere urban documentation and used photography as a critical language for interpreting society.