RLCS, Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 75, 291- 312 [Research] DOI: 10.4185/RLCS-2020-1427en| ISSN 1138-5820 | Year 2020 Received: 15/12/2018. Accepted: 10/12/2019. Published: 15/01/2020 291 Photographic representations of the society of tiredness and poverty Representaciones fotográficas de la sociedad del cansancio y la pobreza Rogelio Del Prado Flores. Anáhuac Mexico University. Mexico. rogelio.delprado2@anahuac.mx [CV] Luz Zareth Moreno Basurto. Tecnológico de Monterrey. Mexico. luzzareth@gmail.com [CV] Mariana Chávez Castañeda. National Autonomous University of Mexico. Mexico. mchavez.castaneda@gmail.com [CV] How to cite this article / Standard reference Del Prado Flores, R., Moreno Basurto, L. Z. & Chávez Castañeda, M. (2020). Photographic representations of the society of tiredness and poverty. Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 75, 291-312. https://www.doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2020-1427en ABSTRACT Introduction: A hermeneutic analog analysis was carried out on photographs taken by university students from three federative entities of Mexico: Mexico State, Morelia, and Querétaro. The main objective for this research is to analyze the social representations from middle, upper-middle and upper class young undergraduates from Mexico, as a way to frame/perceive the Other, regarding tiredness and poverty. The studied topics were the photographic representations of the society of tiredness and poverty. The purpose was to contrast the social representations from the undergraduates, their ways to frame the Other (that appears to live in tiredness and poverty). Methodology: It consisted of a universe of 210 photographic registers. The methodology was descriptive based on the analog hermeneutics. Results: Predominance of images portraying people who carry out productive handmade and handcrafted activities in public streets. Conclusions: The faces possess a bigger importance when representing poverty, perhaps because it is the most expressive part of the body, while they are adults and not old adults who preponderate on the portraits. The vision of the Other in poverty and tiredness is shared among the undergraduates. KEYWORDS: photography; tiredness; poverty; perception; otherness; representation. RESUMEN Introducción. Se realizó un análisis hermenéutico analógico de fotografías tomadas por estudiantes universitarios de tres entidades federativas de México: Estado de México, Morelia y Querétaro. El objetivo principal de la investigación es analizar las representaciones sociales de jóvenes universitarios de clase media, media-alta y alta de tres estados de México, esto en su forma de encuadrar/percibir al Otro, respecto al cansancio y pobreza. Los temas estudiados fueron las