LOOK3, Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, VA is like the Lollapalooza of photography. Billed as three days of peace, love and photography, the festival transforms the small pedestrian mall in downtown Charlottesville into both an indoor and outdoor venue for screenings, exhibits, open air projections and lectures by legacy artists such as Mary Ellen...
Category Archives: Destino
Destino – project update
I spent close to five weeks in Mexico in January and February, visiting migrant shelters in the states of Chiapas, Oaxaca, Veracruz, San Luis Potosi, and Coahuila as part of my ongoing project photographing Central American migrants. For safety reasons, I had to abandon my initial plan of traveling from Mexico City to the U.S....
Destino: Central American migration to the U.S.
Drawn to the frontier edginess and melancholy of the region, I began photographing along the U.S. – Mexico border in 2000, shortly after reading Cormac McCarthy’s, The Crossing. The novel begins with a boy finding a wolf caught in a trap on his family’s Arizona ranch. He treks across the Sierra Madres into Mexico to...