Submitted my Camino de los Muertos project to the NYT portfolio review with minutes to spare.
To see more of my ongoing work photographing the record number of migrants dying outside of El Paso, head on over to my website at www.justinmhamel.com/caminomuertos
This is the first thing I've seen that makes BS worth sticking around for.
Four years ago I met the family of Sylvia Garcia praying for her outside of her ICU room. Down the hall, Jose Garcia's daughter was taking care of her intubated father. He passed away from Covid a month later.
I'm weary of an incoming administration who doesn't take public health seriously.
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What does this mean? I thought Bluesky doesn’t verify anyone.
Thalia Gochez’s photos are so damn good. Wish I could be half the portrait photographer she is.
Well it is an app named after the sky after all.
Is there a funny people list that someone’s made? The problem with living in a world of journalists is that my internet becomes a depressing hell hole in no time at all.
Where can I mindlessly scroll without thinking?
Honestly that’s a wild documentary waiting to happen.
It’s damning how we’re framing mass deportations by saying “how will our country ever survive without exploitable labor” and not “this will rip millions of families apart, how could we do this to them?”
This country doesn’t view immigrants as people, it views them as numbers and labor.
That first photo of the feels hauntingly timeless.
Eyes On the South | Tianran Qin transforms “billboards into bodies of light to enhance their existence and critique their significance in consumer culture.”
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Howdy from West Texas. Here’s a few photos from a chili cook off out in Cornudas, population 20 or so, where the winner won the deed to 10 acres of land.
She’s one of the best there is. Was lucky enough to meet her and see the gulf coast through her eyes, if only for a day.
One of the hardest, and most frustrating, aspects of border news coverage is that so much of it is talked about in an abstract policy sense when every decision or tweet from a person in office impacts people directly. Hope we can humanize all of the policies through the next Trump administration.
The first photo here is of a pregnant woman and her daughter resting in the shade of blankets and c-wire as Texas National Guard stand over them watching.
An asylum seeker I spent months with had the baby in the third photo. She named him Darien, like the jungle.
I was reminded that it’s been a year since I made one of my favorite photos on the border (shown first) so I figured I’d share some more favorites I’ve made over the years.
The last is a photo from when BP held migrants in an outdoor detention camp under Trump in 2019. Arguably only for the optics.
Appreciate the shoutout. Not sure what I’m doing here just yet but I’ll get to posting photos soon enough.
Years ago, when I bought that first photo, I had no idea who Graciela Iturbide was or how she worked. I just knew I’d never seen an image like that before.
A curious line indeed.
