Once a sleepy agricultural town, the entire economy of Altar, Sonora is, at this point, based on human smuggling. Sitting just an hour drive south of the Arizona-Mexico border, Altar is the last and most critical stop before migrants take to the dangerous desert crossing.
David Rochkind's Photos from Heavy Hand, Sunken Spirit Exhibited at Rubin Center in El Paso, TX
Published August 19, 2010
Event date:
August 26, 2010 - 9:00am
Pulitzer Center Grantee David Rochkind's photography on the US-Mexican border will be featured at the Border 2010 exhibition at the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts in El Paso, TX. His work focuses on the havoc wrought by drug trafficking and policing in northern Mexico. The work will be shown in tandem with that of Alejandro Cartagena, whose photographs explore the uncomfortable quiet and emptiness of northern Mexico's suburbs. The exhibition opens on August 26.
For more information visit the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center's website.
Join David Rochkind at Washington University in St. Louis for "The Way Through: Daily Life and the Business of Smuggling in Mexican Border Towns."
It is a great honor to present the winners of anthropographia Awards 2010.
