Photo: Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times

Here and here are some audio posts I produced for Lens, the photojournalism blog of The New York Times.

In one day, Panaderia Caotzingo bakery produces 270 pieces of pan de muerto, Spanish for "bread of the dead."

Nushin Rashidian and I recently spent an evening at a Mexican bakery in Queens preparing for The Day of the Dead. Check out our story at nyfoodchain.com.

This bit of Tucson culture is big and less than twenty years old.

Statue in Sonoita, Ariz

Driving into Sonoita, I caught this rancher rounding up his cattle. Just kidding! That’s actually a big metallic cut-out; I knew it was fake the whole time, though. Well, actually, I found that out after I tried asking him for directions. :^/