Published in 2014 by Aperture and Fundación Televisa, ¡Vamonos! Bernard Plossu in Mexico gathers photographs made during Bernard Plossu’s four journeys through Mexico: 1965–66, 1970, 1974, and 1981. The span matters. Rather than presenting a single expedition or a fixed portrait of the country, the book follows a French photographer’s recurring encounters with Mexico across more than fifteen years, as both traveler and society passed through change.

More than three hundred black-and-white and color photographs move among people, labor, landscape, and the incidental theater of the road. Women pose or glance toward the camera; peasants work; jungle paths disappear into fog; waves reach across open beaches. Plossu’s romantic, itinerant sensibility is balanced by attention to poverty and the pressures of modernization. The pictures do not separate lyric atmosphere from social circumstance: transitory pleasures, difficult conditions, and ordinary gestures occupy the same field of vision.

The sequencing is organized into chapters corresponding to the four Mexican journeys. This chronological structure allows differences in mood and circumstance to emerge without reducing the photographs to a linear report. Individual images register passing moments, while their accumulation gives the book the character of a long, interrupted correspondence with a place. An essay by French photo editor Claude Nori considers Plossu’s vagabond spirit; further commentaries by editor Salvador Albiñana, Emmanuel Guigon, Francisco Salinas, Alfonso Morales, and José Agustín broaden the cultural and historical frame.

For a serious photobook collection, the volume deserves attention less as a comprehensive survey of Mexico than as an extended study of looking while in motion. Its importance lies in the conjunction of repeated travel, chronological editing, and the exchange between monochrome and color. Together, these elements reveal how Plossu’s photographic language responded to one country over time—and how a travel record can become a layered account of memory, modernity, and encounter.