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Mexico City’s Day of the Dead preparations are so full of life

A woman with a face full of macabre make up participates in Day of the Dead festivities in Mexico City on Thursday, October 27, 2016. (AP)

Updated on: Oct 28, 2016 2:00 PM IST

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A woman with a face full of macabre make up participates in Day of the Dead festivities in Mexico City on Thursday, October 27, 2016. (AP)

Updated on Oct 28, 2016 2:00 PM

A woman with a face full of macabre make up participates in Day of the Dead festivities in Mexico City on Thursday, October 27, 2016. (AP)

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The holiday honours the dead as friends and families gather in cemeteries to decorate their loved ones' graves and hold vigil through the night on November 1 and 2. (AP)

Updated on Oct 28, 2016 2:00 PM

The holiday honours the dead as friends and families gather in cemeteries to decorate their loved ones' graves and hold vigil through the night on November 1 and 2. (AP)

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A couple wearing skull masks perform at the festival. (AP)

Updated on Oct 28, 2016 2:00 PM

A couple wearing skull masks perform at the festival. (AP)

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Residents create a sawdust representation of a skull. (AP)

Updated on Oct 28, 2016 2:00 PM

Residents create a sawdust representation of a skull. (AP)

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Six-month-old Melody, dressed as a calavera, is carried by her mother through the crowd that is gathering for the start of the Gran Procession of the Catrinas. (AP)

Updated on Oct 28, 2016 2:00 PM

Six-month-old Melody, dressed as a calavera, is carried by her mother through the crowd that is gathering for the start of the Gran Procession of the Catrinas. (AP)

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The grand procession is one of many that will take place in Mexico City as part of the celebrations. (AP)

Updated on Oct 28, 2016 2:00 PM

The grand procession is one of many that will take place in Mexico City as part of the celebrations. (AP)

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The figure of a skeleton wearing broad-brimmed hat was first done as a satirical engraving by artist Jose Guadalupe Posada sometime between 1910 and his death in 1913, to poke fun at women who pretended to be European by dressing elegantly and as a critique of social stratification. (AP)

Updated on Oct 28, 2016 2:00 PM

The figure of a skeleton wearing broad-brimmed hat was first done as a satirical engraving by artist Jose Guadalupe Posada sometime between 1910 and his death in 1913, to poke fun at women who pretended to be European by dressing elegantly and as a critique of social stratification. (AP)

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A “catrina” and "calavera” stand in front of a Day of the Dead altar honouring the 43 disappeared rural college students in Acapulco on Wednesday. The government's initial investigation decided the students were killed and incinerated in a fire in 2014 but international experts have cast doubt on this theory and the families have not accepted it. (AP)

Updated on Oct 28, 2016 2:00 PM

A “catrina” and "calavera” stand in front of a Day of the Dead altar honouring the 43 disappeared rural college students in Acapulco on Wednesday. The government's initial investigation decided the students were killed and incinerated in a fire in 2014 but international experts have cast doubt on this theory and the families have not accepted it. (AP)

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A girl with her face painted to look like the popular Mexican figure called "Catrina" take part in a procession. (REUTERS)

Updated on Oct 28, 2016 2:00 PM

A girl with her face painted to look like the popular Mexican figure called "Catrina" take part in a procession. (REUTERS)

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