Fronton from Evelio Contreras on Vimeo.
My good friend Evelio Contreras, whom I worked with in Roanoke (now he’s at Las Vegas Sun), is visiting for the week, and we’re working hard. Sunday afternoon we went to Parque Agua Azul, a city park, looking for a group of guys I photographed back in September who play Fronton (handball). I told him that day there was a man with only one arm, and somehow, he was there Sunday too, so we made a little video story about him and the game in the park. Afterwards he challenged us to a game, which we oblidged. It wasn’t as hard as I first thought, but my hand was sore the next day.
Yesterday, before shooting some interviews for my projects, we spent about an hour at the Lucha Libre office begging for press passes to today’s matches. I think we’re 85% there…still have to write a formal letter of request and drop it off later today before the fight. Should be fun if we can work it out. Stay tuned.
