This image, Tijuana, Mexico, 2003, is a close-up of a display selling skulls for Día de Los Muertes that have been moulded out of sugar and decorated with squiggles of neon icing; three misguided bees feed on the colourful sweets. The photograph echoes an image from Parr's earlier book Common Sense wherein a wasp gorges itself on a blob of jelly.

Tijuana appears in Parr's book Mexico (Aperture, 2006), his journey into and beyond the country's clichés. In that book, we are in the recognisable territory: many visual themes will be familiar to Parr fans, including colourful and mocking close-ups of food, hats, signs, and souvenirs, garishly shot with medical efficiency. This work both critiques and celebrates this corruption. As he puts it, "What I am saying is that it's a good and a bad thing. I'm constantly trying to express ambiguity. And that's what photography does very well."