These photos capture moments of beauty and surprise in Mexico City

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“The best portrait photographers have a kind of mysterious connection with the people that they’re photographing. You can’t fake that; you either have it or you don’t,” says Robert Swope. Órale: Love and Death in Mexico City, a new book of photography by his late partner Michel Hurst, is a testament to this idea. Shot in the Mexican capital over the course of around six years, there is an intimacy to the photographs, which find their subjects peeringhellip;read more raquo;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;View Gallery (13 images)nbsp;