I spent a few days in Tucson, where I observed an Operation Streamline proceeding in Federal Court, went on a 10 kilometer hike in the Arizona desert with the Samaritans of Tucson, and generally acclimated to the heat before heading further south to the twin border towns of Nogales, Arizona – Nogales, Sonora. I left...
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Destino on KICKSTARTER Funding successful!
45 DAYS, 127 BACKERS, $10,425 PLEDGED OF $6,800 GOAL (153% funded). Thank you to everyone who backed, Destino, a photography book project portraying the epic journey across Mexico by freight train of undocumented Central American migrants as they attempt to enter the United States in pursuit of a better life. Please visit the project homepage...
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...
Home of Mercy migrant shelter, Arriaga, Chiapas, Mexico
The woman slumped on the edge of the sagging couch, its cushions flattened over time by the weight of countless sweating bodies. The synthetic upholstery had gone from white to the color of boiled oatmeal. Her hair drifted in wild, loose tangles, framing a pair of eyes that stared, vacant and wide with fear out...