Barbed Wire Fences at the Border (2020) by Ada Trillo - Summer 2020 Finalist |
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Ada Trillo is a Philadelphia-based photographer, born and raised in the bi-national border region of Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas. In her work, Trillo focuses on borders of inclusion and exclusion as they are experienced through people in sex trafficking, climate and violence-related international migration, and long-standing barriers of race and class. Trillo's work is in the Library of Congress, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and several other collections, and has been featured in The Guardian, Vogue, Smithsonian Magazine, and Mother Jones, among other publications.
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" It's important that we fight for those whose stories often go untold ~
Thank you, FOCUS photo l.a. "
- ADA TRILLO (via Instagram)
Top 3 Finalist, FOCUS photo l.a. Summer 2020
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A finalist of FOCUS photo l.a. Summer 2020 edition, Ada Trillo's winning image 'Barbed Wire Fences at the Border' (2020) is part of a larger body of work and upcoming publication 'La Caravana del Diablo" which details the events of January 2020 when Hondurans organized a massive migrant caravan that traveled through Guatemala into Mexico, fleeing violence and poor economic conditions. Trillo recalls, "Migrants attempting to enter Mexico split into two major groups. The largest group crossed the Suchiate River and was tear-gassed by the Guardia Nacional. Forced to retreat, they waited by the river's edge for two days. Their second attempt across the river (at four in the morning) was a success, but it was only hours later that the Guardia Nacional surrounded them, put them on busses, and sent them back to Honduras. The smaller group amassed in the border town of El Ceibo, Guatemala and were met by the head of foreign relations in Mexico. He welcomed migrants in groups of 10 to enter Mexico and seek asylum. Migrants were briefly kept in detention center, and against the head of foreign relations, they were deported back to Honduras without being given the opportunity to seek asylum."
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