FABIO CUTTICA - MESSICO, HOTEL MIGRANTE

Fabio Cuttica is a documentary photographer based in Tijuana, Mexico.

Born in Rome (1973), he grew up in Colombia and Peru until his teenage years, then moving to Italy. After he completed his studies on photography in the European Institute of Design and Visual Arts in Rome, he began his own practice in Rome, shooting news for Italian newspapers.


Since 2001, he has mostly focused his work in Latin America, documenting social, cultural, health and human rights issues of its reality.


During the year 2004, he works on a personal project "La prima cosa" (the first thing) about the difficulties that some poor families in Italy find trying to have a house and decide to occupy abandoned houses. The project was awarded with the 2005 Canon Award as the best project. In 2005, he decides to go back to Colombia, Bogotá.


During the 2006-2008 period, his work was concentrated in Venezuela, where he documented the social changes and aspects of the Venezuelan reality under the government of Hugo Chavez.


Since 2010, Fabio lives in Mexico, where he has documented aspects of the conflict provoked by the ongoing war for territory control between drug cartels and the State. At present, he is working on a long-term project called “Dark Passage”, about the long and difficult odissey that thousands of illegal migrants -majority Central-American and Mexicans, face everyday along the way to reach the Northern-Mexican border to, finally, cross it.

   

Messico - Tabasco 2011 On the freight train that drive along the south states of Mexico towars north regions, every years thousands of central -american illegal migrants, travel on the wagon roofs. risking so their life for reach the border with de Unided States.

Mexico - Baja California-Mexicali 2011 A group of; immigrants deported from the USA arrive in the "; Migrant Hotel".In the border city of Mexicali; there is an abbandoned hotel; that a group of activist and voluntiers trasformed in a shelter and refuge for immigrants deported from the USA

Tierra Blanca, Veracruz, Mexico, 2011 - This little town is an important railway junction. Thousands of migrants travelling on the freight train pass here. They can have a rest along the streets before restarting the trip towards North Mexico.

Mexicali, August 2011 - Hotel Migrante - Here a group of deportees and migrant rights activists have taken over an old, abandoned hotel, formerly the Hotel Centenario (the Hundred Year Hotel). They've renamed it the Hotel Migrante, or the Migrant Hotel. Just a block from the border crossing, it gives people deported from the United States a place to sleep and food to eat for a few days before they go home, or try to cross the border again - On the chest of a deportee, guest of the Hotel Migrante, the image of the Santa Muerte (the Holy Death), a religious-pagan image very popular among Mexican working class people

Arriaga (Chiapas), April 2011 - The Suchiate river that marks the southwesternmost part of the border between Mexico and Guatemala. Every day, thousands of people cross this natural border without legal permission as irregular migrants and travel on the roof of freight trains risking their life to reach as soon as possible the border with United States and try to cross it

Messico - Veracruz 2011 A woman,illegal migrant, coming from Honduras travels on the freight train that crosses the State of Veracruz, with her little three-year-old girl.

Mexico -Baja California- Jacumè At the border area, in the horizon the wall that divides Mexico from the United States could be seen. This area of the South of California is one of the places used by migrants to cross the border.

Messico - Veracruz 2011 Some migrants take a rest, wash themselves, and find safe shelter at a church in the outskirts of the city of Coatzacoalcos. They await for the next train to pass by.

   All images © Fabio Cuttica

Fabio Cuttica

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SANS PAPIER

Manca Juvan è una fotografa freelance che , dopo aver completato i suoi studi presso la scuola slovena per la fotografia, ha avuto molti premi e riconoscimenti. Lei è stata selezionata come fotografo dell'anno in Slovenia per il suo lavoro di reportage nel 2006, 2007 e 2008 e fu lodata - nel 2005 e nel 2006 - per il suo lavoro sull'Afghanistan dall'associazione dei giornalisti sloveni. Nominata per Joop Swart Materclass del World Press Photo nel 2008, è stato scelta nel 2011 come uno dei tre destinatari di una borsa di studio per la fotografia dalla fondazione NYU/Magnum per il programma di diritti umani. Il suo lavoro è stato mostrato al Photomed festival in Francia e selezionato per la sua "Hall of Excellence" dalla Fondazione di Manuel Rivera-Ortiz per International Photography. Il suo lavoro è stato pubblicato in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Chicago Tribune, National Geographic (Slovenia), Time.com, Marie Claire, The European Voice e Der Standard. Ho ammirato particolarmente la sua galleria intitolato Sans Papier ("senza documenti"), che consiste di una serie di abbinamenti tra i ritratti dei clandestini a Parigi e gli oggetti che hanno portato dai loro paesi nativi. Semplici e suggestivi.

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A DANGEROUS CROSSING

Migrant shelters along the Mexican border are filled not with newcomers looking for a better life, but with seasoned crossers: older men and women, often deportees, braving ever-greater risks to get back to their families in the United States – the country they consider home.
They present an enormous challenge to American policymakers, because they continue to head north despite obstacles more severe than at any time in recent history. It is not just that the American economy has little to offer; the border itself is far more threatening. On one side, fences have grown and American agents have multiplied; on the other, criminals haunt the journey at every turn.
Fifty-six percent of apprehensions at the Mexican border in 2010 involved people who had been caught previously, up from 44 percent in 2005. A growing percentage of deportees in recent years have also been deported before, according to Department of Homeland Security figures.


A man looks around a border fence that separates Mexico from the U.S., which will be replaced with a more modern fence, harder to scale, in Nogales, Mexico, the largest Mexican city bordering Arizona, June 20, 2011. Migrant shelters along the Mexican border are filled not with newcomers looking for a better life, but with seasoned crossers: older men and women, often deportees, braving ever-greater risks to get back to their families in the U.S., the country they consider home. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)


A U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle patrols across the border from Nogales, the largest Mexican city bordering Arizona, June 18, 2011. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)


A group of men in Nogales, the largest Mexican city bordering Arizona, June 18, 2011. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)


A man sleeps at a shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, Aug. 13, 2011. Migrant shelters along the Mexican border are filled not with newcomers looking for a better life, but with seasoned crossers: older men and women, often deportees, braving ever-greater risks to get back to their families in the U.S., the country they consider home. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)


The Rivera-Ramirez family of six, with four girls and two boys were deported from the U.S., in Tijuana, Mexico, Aug. 11, 2011. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)


A bus waits for passengers near a border wall in Nogales, the largest Mexican city bordering Arizona. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)


A man rests against a barbed wire line up while waiting for food in Tijuana, Mexico, Aug. 11, 2011. Migrant shelters along the Mexican border are filled not with newcomers looking for a better life, but with seasoned crossers: older men and women, often deportees, braving ever-greater risks to get back to their families in the U.S., the country they consider home. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)


A man gets a trim near a dry canal along the U.S. border in Tijuana, Mexico, Aug. 10, 2011. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)


A man smokes marijuana along a fence in Nogales, the largest Mexican city bordering Arizona, June 18, 2011. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)


A man at a shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, Aug. 13, 2011. Migrant shelters along the Mexican border are filled not with newcomers looking for a better life, but with seasoned crossers: older men and women, often deportees, braving ever-greater risks to get back to their families in the U.S., the country they consider home. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)


Men wait in a dry canal along the U.S. and Mexico border, mostly full of homeless deportees, in Tijuana, Mexico, Aug. 12, 2011. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)


Irma Villeda wanders up and down a food line displaying a photograph of her son, George Villeda, a missing deportee, in Tijuana, Mexico, Aug. 11, 2011. Border crossers are braving ever-greater risks to get back to their families in the U.S., the country they consider home. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)


A woman looks on at a man who lays beaten in an alley near the U.S. border in Tijuana, Mexico, Aug. 14, 2011. Migrant shelters along the Mexican border are filled not with newcomers looking for a better life, but with seasoned crossers: older men and women, often deportees, braving ever-greater risks to get back to their families in the U.S., the country they consider home. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)


A man who has been beaten in an alley next to the border, in Tijuana, Mexico, Aug. 14, 2011. Migrant shelters along the Mexican border are filled not with newcomers looking for a better life, but with seasoned crossers: older men and women, often deportees, braving ever-greater risks to get back to their families in the U.S., the country they consider home. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)


A man stands near a fence that separates Mexico from the U.S. that will be replaced with a more modern fence, one harder to scale, in hopes of finding scrap metal to sell, in Nogales, Mexico, the largest Mexican city bordering Arizona, June 20, 2011. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)


A line forms early for free food next to a migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, Aug. 14, 2011. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)


The border fence at the beach in Tijuana, Mexico, Aug. 11, 2011. Migrant shelters along the Mexican border are filled not with newcomers looking for a better life, but with seasoned crossers: older men and women, often deportees, braving ever-greater risks to get back to their families in the U.S., the country they consider home. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)


Beach-goers stand by a fence along the California border in Tijuana, Mexico, Aug. 11, 2011. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)


Two people embrace in the desert in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, May 28, 2011. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)

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