In the bag for North

Emanuele Satolli

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Title: In the bag for North
Creator: Emanuele Satolli
Date: 2015
Photographer's site: www.emanuelesatolli.com
About the series: Despite the pressure from the U.S.A, nearly all of the 500-plus-mile-long border between Guatemala and Mexico is wide open. Central American immigrants continue to enter illegally and undisturbed in Mexico to face the hardest part of their north journey. Those who are arrested and deported cross back the border to go through the routes under the control of Mexican drug cartels to avoid the large number of checkpoints. The journey becomes even more long and dangerous. I have explored what a person who decides to face this perilous passage chooses to bring with him in his bag. The photographs were taken in Tecun Uman, a city on the Guatemala-Mexico border.
About the Photographer: Emanuele started his career as a journalist joining the School of Journalism in Turin, where he specialised in photojournalism. His documentary photography investigates socio-cultural issues in order to raise awareness about particular human conditions. His works have been published internationally in TIME Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, Stern, Internazionale, IoDonna, Esquire Russia, VG Norway among others. He is currently based in Istanbul.
#DPF2015: 2015

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