MEXICO PRESS

Mexico City, Oct. 1 — Canadian photographer Barbara McClatchie Andrews was found dead on a highway in the southeastern Mexican state of Yucatan, local authorities reported Friday. She was 74.

According to a bulletin issued by the Attorney General’s Office of Yucatan, the woman’s lifeless body was found Friday morning and the subsequen autopsy determined the cause of death to be “asphyxiation by strangling.”

The state AG Office indicated that the woman was living in the Yucatan capital of Merida, and said the investigation into the case is “in progress.”

“The victim’s body remains in the facilities of the Forensic Medicine Service of this authority, and as yet no family members have come forward to reclaim her mortal remains,” the bulletin said.

According to McClatchie Andrews’ own Web site, she was a Canadian photojournalist who focused her career on recording with her camera the different cultures existing in the developing world.

Her works were published in such prestigious publications as National Geographic, and she had mounted exhibitions in Mexico, Guatemala, the United States, Canada and more.

“Barbara now focuses exclusively on her photographs, in which you can see ‘a world parallel to that of daily reality, one demanding time and attention to be observed, a silent world that manages to say much through effective use of composition, form and colour,'” she had said in her online biography.

She had a degree in English and French Literature from the University of British Columbia, did postgraduate studies in English Literature at Canada’s Concordia University and in Spanish Literature, and studied photography and illustration at the University of Arizona.

Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists. Between 2009-2015 some 55 members of that profession have lost their lives, according to the latest report by the NGO Articulo 19. EFE