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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 people, 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, 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. offers no solutions to the dire situation playing out on the Rio Grande, but rather points to the possibilities derived from bearing witness to the present, translating emotional data and applying this learning towards rehabilitative, integrative ways of supporting migrant communities and affecting publicperception and policy. What Remains is a labor of love, an invitation and a provocation, for us to collectively reassess the costs

of extractive capitalism, acknowledge the migratory history of human beings and reaffirm basic values

and rights of human existence.