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I was born and raised across the border of Mexico and the United States. My work speaks about human condition in poignant places and difficult times. Interrogating on the theme of survival in the border, I am interested in capturing stories that are a true testament of courage. Conscious about the problematics that are experienced in borderlands around the world, my objective is to create socially-charged visual content that speaks about the dire conditions of immigrants, displaced, refugees and asylum-seekers during their dangerous crossing of borders. What happens after they cross and arrive to "the promised land" and start to experience the constant invisible borders that still need to be crossed.

Grounded in nearly two decades of photographic documentation of the migrant passage in the border of Mexico and the United States and other borders around the world, my work imparts an understanding of the gravity of conditions that precipitate mass migration - from the act of making the perilous crossing, to the art of surviving what comes next. Documenting the migratory history of human beings and reaffirming the basic values and rights of human existence.