quinceañera is a celebration of a girl’s 15th birthday, marking the transition from childhood to womanhood. Families typically spend an average of $20,000 and prepare for the celebration for years. (...)
A plane takes off from the Los Angeles Airport. USA. 2021.
A mexican pole vault jumper trains by the wall in Tijuana beach while a family uses the wall to mount their beach day tent. Meixco. 2019.
The Trump administration’s “Zero Tolerance” policy, introduced in April 2018, mandated criminal prosecution for adults entering the US unlawfully, and resulted in the separation of families, since (...)
As a contemporary interpretation of “Our Lady of the Iguanas” by Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide, I’ve reimagined that iconic image to highlight the fascination that drug cartels have for ex (...)
I discovered Felicity by chance in 2015 while driving around the roads of southern California. Its unique history and logic, coupled with its proximity to the Imperial Sand Dunes border fence with (...)
The village of Xicotepec, Puebla, is home to one of the tallest statues of the Virgin of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico. Puebla, Mexico. May 2021.
A red thread is placed around some catctus in the desert of Sonora un Arizona, in reference to the migrants that get lost while crossing the border. Tucson, Arizona, USA. January 2019.
The price for crossing to the US from Tapachula with a people smuggler (colloquially known as a coyote) can depend on what you look like. Africans and Asians need to pay more, because migration off (...)
A dog looking at its own shadow. Colima, Mexico. January 2019.
The volcano Popocatepetl is one of the 14 active volcanoes in Mexico. It has been in constant eruption since 2014. Benito Juarez, whose image is framing the volcano was the first indigenous preside (...)
A cactus is reflected in a mirror placed leaning on the border fence near Nogales. Arizona, USA. 2019.
A man wears a cactus helmet in a rooftop in Mexico City. Mexico. April 10, 2021.
The official center of the world is in Felicity (California), a very small town with just a couple of houses that was founded by the French ex-parachutists François Istel. The town's key features a (...)
The second time I went to Hierve el Agua I found the place empty with just a couple waiting by one of the pools. The woman started walking into the water and I ran to take a picture, but my camera (...)
