Shot on assignment for The Economist’s 1843 Magazine on January 2022 “César Ortigoza looked out over the Arizona desert and sighed ‘It’s not easy out there,’ he said. He is the co-founder of Armadillos group, a volunteer organisation which helps families find the bodies of the many migrants who disappear in the US-Mexico borderlands. Since […]
Shot on assignment for The New York Times, June 2022 The colourful hand-painted signs decorating iconic Mexico City street food stalls are disappearing as a new law is set to unify their appearance. Through a series of photographs of those still decorated, details of their distinctive lettering, punchy and often absurd characters and the costumers […]
Shot on assignment for Le Monde M Magazine, July 2019 Known to the locals as “El Cerrito” the stunning Villa Planchart was designed by Gio Ponti at the top of a hill overlooking Caracas in the 50s. High oil prices had put the country’s economy as one of the strongest and most prosperous in South […]
Shot on assignment for The Economist 1843 Magazine, December 2019 “Cuba was a refuge, both from the past and from a feared-for future.” In 1943 Marcel Feigel’s parents, both Orthodox Jews, were sent to Nazi concentration camps. He lived hidden with different Christian families until the war ended and his mom, astonishingly, returned to Belgium […]
Shot on assignment for The California Sunday Magazine, September 2019 Te espero como la lluvia de mayo. I wait for you like the rain of May — a popular refrain among farmers in Central America, where the first rainfall in May long signaled the end of the dry season. But over the past decade, in what is known as the […]
Shot for Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal, April 2018 Rising violence and instability in the Northern Triangle of Central America – Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador – is forcing hundreds of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers to cross Mexico on their quest to reach the United States. Powerful criminal gangs control the route, and […]
In 2016, I visited agro ecological farm Naturaleza Viva in Argentina for the Gaia Foundation as part of a large-scale initiative that would become the book and exhibition We Feed the World. Bringing together 300 portraits of regenerative farmers by renowned photographers, it was showcased in over 50 exhibitions, from London’s Southbank Centre to strawbale […]
Shot on assignment for M, le Magazine du Monde, February 2018 “To get to Tapachula is to see the end of the tunnel. The border city of southern Mexico provides relief to hundreds of thousands of refugees en route to the United States. Many come from Latin America, but also, since the tightening of European […]