https://www.adrianalopezsanfeliu.com/projects daily 1.0 2024-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0572959477d30001f863c7/1562167041907-YT8YYSYY8QYNRJBFF33P/elliot-erwitt-film-poster.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0572959477d30001f863c7/1562166955420-TTAWHXZ9QKWP2IGKGAS1/unnamed-11.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0572959477d30001f863c7/1562166955471-SM8NLD1JOUJRDE74F1CK/unnamed-10.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0572959477d30001f863c7/1562166955690-GWSQ1RE83PL530KXSHYO/unnamed-9.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0572959477d30001f863c7/1562166955728-I43K32KX07ZSXUBNTST8/unnamed-8.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0572959477d30001f863c7/1562166955902-R4O4PRNWADOOC1S3YVVM/unnamed-7.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0572959477d30001f863c7/1562166956014-AOCRUV0XH7SWOSIV8KWD/unnamed-6.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0572959477d30001f863c7/1562166956143-J6HD2S2DS0HB5ENRUD8R/unnamed-5.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0572959477d30001f863c7/1562166956202-4ADC301HWCFNGU7ZQBQ3/unnamed-4.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0572959477d30001f863c7/1562166956359-A9MYN5PDKG9LMUOYQ3VH/unnamed-3.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0572959477d30001f863c7/1562167067641-4YB1MIOWTQNO0YYGMPUH/unnamed-2.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0572959477d30001f863c7/1562166762869-TPVL8GSNPAPT5NG4SAXQ/unnamed-3.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0572959477d30001f863c7/1562166792320-JSZDMTXFU0R5K64307N0/unnamed-7.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0572959477d30001f863c7/1562167093959-R2RHSUE79RYM4ERKZ9AQ/unnamed-1.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0572959477d30001f863c7/1577122753047-PYW3SC72YF5DNQOLOBKT/01_Life+on+the+block.jpg Projects - Life on the Block The American society is a mosaic of cultures that share a land, a flag and a language as symbols of an identity. But beneath the illusions of national unity in parts of America, another country exists. Today 13% of the population of this country is Hispanic American. Within that demographic, one third are Puerto Rican families searching for a prosperous life. Life on the Block portrays the physical and mental boundaries of young Puerto Rican women living in Spanish Harlem (Manhattan, NY). The women of these families provide an inner compass to explore the challenges of life and their quest for empowerment as well as their desire and inability to break a cycle of mere survival. From 2002 to 2007 I documented the lives of young Puerto Rican women and their families living on 103rd Street in Spanish Harlem. This neighborhood, only a few blocks away from the affluent Upper East Side, seems like another country. There is a hardness that characterizes these streets, and innocence dies young. This community has a high rate of unemployment-three times the New York City average-and the family income is based on public assistance and often supplemented by the underground economy of the street the sale of drugs and other illegal activities that commonly lead to detention, prison, and death. Fathers and brothers are often absent from the family unit. Girls reaffirm their existence through maternity and drop out of high school to become mothers at an early age. Women are the pillars of the community, and often the main source of vitality in family life. These strong young women of the block represent the potential elements of change in this society. For the past five years (2002-2007) I have been observing the inner landscapes of these young women. During this time I have seen their desire to stretch their own boundaries and their inability to do so. The cycle of survival and apathy eradicates any long-term vision for their own lives. These women often choose to be somebody in their block rather than nobody in a promising new horizon. To break that lifestyle is almost a betrayal to their community. Many families in these communities live under the same values and circumstances, a pattern of existence they jokingly call the ghetto life. This piece is an intense look at their roles as women in a machista culture, as latinas in a white society, and as mothers of the upcoming American generations. ~~~ La sociedad norteamericana es un mosaico de culturas conviviendo bajo un mismo cielo. El 13% de este país es hispanoamericano. Un tercio son familias puertorriqueñas que llegaron a la metrópoli en busca de un futuro mejor; muchas han recorrido un largo camino sin llegar a lograr la prosperidad tan deseada. Las mujeres de estas familias son los pilares del círculo de la supervivencia. Del año 2002 al 2007 exploré los paisajes internos de las jóvenes madres puertorriqueñas que viven en Spanish Harlem, Manhattan, Nueva York. Un barrio de 100.000 habitantes, con uno de los índices más altos de desempleo y delincuencia de la ciudad, en el que el hombre se ausenta del núcleo familiar y la mujer se aferra a la vida a través de la maternidad. Ellas son los potenciales motores de cambio en esta sociedad. Durante este tiempo he podido ver su apego incondicional a un barrio, una calle (la 103) que se convierte en frontera física y mental (muralla invisible) que les impide alcanzar nuevos horizontes. He constatado el deseo de estas mujeres de ampliar sus fronteras y su incapacidad para lograrlo: sus vidas reflejan la frustración del sueño americano. Este trabajo es un testimonio del papel de la mujer en una cultura machista, su posición como latina en una sociedad de blancos y su rol como madres de las nuevas generaciones de América. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0572959477d30001f863c7/1563054890656-FX6A5KAHIYK5G15USU34/SSG_Cover.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0572959477d30001f863c7/1560640259006-IFLVTPJ45FWIB8ZVMTUL/01_10_Arizona_34__167_F_HR.jpg Projects - Immigration: Arizona at the crossroads "America is great because we get people from all over the world. To summarize America, I will say, 'It's freedom: Freedom to do what you want to do and be what you want to be.' Family is an important value for the American people. How you grow up and the values you learn are what you carry through your life and it helps you." Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County Sheriff for eighteen years. Phoenix, Arizona. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) more than 40 percent of immigrants to the U.S. come across the Arizona border. In 2010, ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 91.000 individuals from Arizona, returning them to their countries of origin. From October 1, 2009 to September 30, 2010, 253 people, seeking a new life in the U.S., died in the desert of Arizona state. "My girlfriends are taking their kids to therapy, because if the parents are twenty minutes late, their children call and ask: 'Are you okay? Where are you? What's happened?' At this moment here, you are punished by the color of your skin and the language you speak. We are living with pain, anguish, stress. When parents go to work, their children don't know if they will be back." Alex is an undocumented immigrant and mother of two, living with her family, in Tucson, Arizona. She works as an aid to older women and volunteers at Coalicion de Derechos Humanos to inform migrants on their rights. Arizona 2010 camino hacia la felicidad? Este proyecto fotográfico plasma la realidad de los inmigrantes que cruzan la frontera en busca de una vida mejor y a su vez a las personas y organizaciones que los ayudan en el camino. Según datos de la Oficina de Estadísticas del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional, 10,8 millones de personas viven en Estados Unidos sin documentos. El 40% de los inmigrantes ilegales que entran en los Estados Unidos de América, lo hacen por la frontera de Arizona. Se estima que 1000 personas cruzan esta frontera ilegalmente a diario. Las leyes migratorias vigentes criminalizan a los inmigrantes sin documentos y permite considerar sospechosos de delito a todos los que por su aspecto puedan parecer inmigrantes, ya sean ciudadanos norteamericanos, inmigrantes legales o indocumentados. A su vez la ley actual castiga a todos los que proveen de asistencia, refugio, trabajo o transporte a un migrante indocumentado. Los inmigrantes que habitan en Arizona viven oprimidos temiendo ser la próxima familia deportada u fragmentada por la ley. La patrulla fronteriza, los centros de Detención y cárceles están desbordados de trabajo. Los activistas, organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro, grupos religiosos y ciudadanos sensibilizados por esta situación, luchan por dar dignidad, educación, alimentos, asistencia médica y psicológica a los migrantes indocumentados y deportados. Alex, madre de dos niños, inmigrante indocumentada, trabaja acompañando a mujeres de la tercera edad y como voluntaria en la Coalición de Derechos Humanos de Tucson, Arizona. "Tengo amigas que están llevando a sus hijos a terapia por el estrés que sufren. Escuchan y conocen historias de padres que salieron a trabajar y no regresaron, que fueron detenidos y deportados ...Familias enteras desplazadas, otras amputadas. Niños ciudadanos Americanos ven a su padres indocumentados, partir deportados. Esa es la realidad de los hijos de los indocumentados ahorita: aprenderse de memoria los números del centro de atención al inmigrante y el de los abogados de inmigración. 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