~ Field Notes ~

Seeing Mexico city as a solo traveller
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Seeing Mexico city as a solo traveller

I fly from London to Mexico City international airport (that’s generally referred to as Benito Juárez International Airport) and take an Uber from the airport to my apartment in the Roma Sur district.

Being a visual designer, the first thing that stands out on the taxi ride to my apartment, is how much and the quality of the street art and how vibrant it is! The ride is utterly eye opening as I’ve never seen this combination of culture and art outside of East London – and I love it, it’s like travelling through an open-air art museum.

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A road trip through the Atlas Mountains to the set of ‘Baghdad Central’.
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A road trip through the Atlas Mountains to the set of ‘Baghdad Central’.

In November 2018, I found myself in Ouarzazate (aka the ‘Hollywood of Morocco’), working alongside Corey Stoll, the Hollywood star of ‘The Bourne Legacy’, ‘Ant-Man’, and TV series, ‘House of Cards’, on the set of ‘Baghdad Central’, a gripping TV drama series set against the backdrop of post-invasion Iraq, following the harrowing story of Muhsin al-Khafaji, a former Iraqi police inspector desperate to find his daughter amidst the chaos, for which I got an IMDB credit for. Read on to hear about unexpected wardrobe blunders and what it’s like as a performer on set.

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