Theory & Practice

Illuminating Absence and Community Through Photography

18/22
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A police dog looking for humans bones. Veracruz, Mexico. 2020.
My daugther Itzel at home in Taxco Guerrero. She is 9 years old. In 2013. three of my brothers in-laws died. After these events I began documenting my family and tried to capture the psychologica (...)
Tania Fernandez at her house. She has one missing family member. Guerrero, Mexico. 2019.
A man inside a cave (sacred space) in the hill of Cruzco. Zitlala, Guerrero, Mexico. 2017.
Offerings to San Miguel in the Hill of the Maiz in the Nahua community of Xalpatlahuac. Guerrero, Mexico. 2022.
Family members who emigrated from Guerrero spend time together at Flushing Meadows, Corona Park. Queens, New York, USA. 2021.
The men of the Gonzalez Sierra family bring out the beef that is being cooked in an underground oven for the celebration La Concepción, Copanatoyac. Guerrero, Mexico. 2021.
A woman in a ritual in La Garza Hill. Guerrero, Mexico. 2020.
At a village cemetery in La Concepción, family members visit the cross raided in honor of Carmen Sierra, a beloved matriarch. Mexico. 2021.
Landscape of the mountain. Guerrero, Mexico. 2020.
Crime scene in the neighborhood El Progreso. Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico. 2018.
A pilgrimage carries the image of the virgin of Guadalupe. Every year on December 12, millions of pilgrims embark on a journey to visit the virgin at the Basilica of Guadalupe. Ciudad de Mexico, Me (...)
Water droplets like stars. Guerrero, Mexico. 2020.
The kiss of a couple in a concert about Narco-Culture-Music. Xalpatlahuac, Guerrero, Mexico. 2022.
The hand of a peasant and the "chapulin," the knives to grate opium gum, handcrafted by poppy farmers. Guerrero, Mexico. 2021. All images © Yael Martínez / Magnum Photos
A child plays inside her home in the comumnity of Loma Canoa in Cochoapa el Grande. Although Cochoapa el Grande is one of the poppy producing municipalities, the poverty rates are among the lowest (...)
A Na Savi elder on the Cerro de la Garza. For the Na Savi people, elders are respected since they contain wisdom and connection with our mother earth. Every December 31, the Na Savi indigenous com (...)
Members of Las Rastreadoras del Fuerte on a way to a search party in Los Mochis Sinaloa. Mexico. 2020.