photo-eye Gallery Interview: Michelle Frankfurter’s Destino Photographer’s Showcase artist Michelle Frankfurter has recently co…
Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2014/06/interview-michelle-frankfurters-destino.html
Michelle Frankfurter has recently completed her multi-year project titled Destino documenting Central American migrants traveling through Mexico to cross into the United States
These documentary photos tell the tale of the countless Central American immigrants who, with great resilience and fearless singularity of purpose, brave great dangers while crossing Mexico in the hopes of reaching their promised land: the United States o
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Meaning both “destination” and “destiny” in Spanish, “Destino” portrays the perilous journey of undocumented Central American migrants along the network of freight trains in Mexico. As these vehicles lurch inexorably across the Mexican landscape, they head towards the promise of finding work in the United States. It is the odyssey of a generation of exiles across a land that is becoming increasingly dangerous, heading towards a precarious future—an option of last resorts.
“Destino” is Michelle Frankfurter’s personal project about the journey of Central American migrants across Mexico by rail. A documentary photographer based in Washington DC, she shot this project on Ilford HP5 120 film and a Bronica 6×6 camera – 12 exposures per roll.
photo-eye Gallery Photographer’s Showcase: Destino We are happy to present a new edit of Michelle Frankfurter’s Destino portfol…
Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2012/04/photographers-showcase-destino.html
On my most recent trip trip, I brought along an 8×8 copy of my first Blurb edit. I kept it wrapped in a plastic Ziploc bag inside my camera bag. People were extremely enthusiastic about it. A crowd of migrants would invariably gather as soon as I took it out. They saw it as a visual diary of their experiences. They passed it around with a great deal of reverence, as if they were handling a sacred or fragile text.
Looking at portfolios from Critical Mass 2011…Documentary photographer, Michelle Frankfurter, was born in Israel, lived in Nicaragua, worked in Haiti, and now calls Takoma Park, Maryland, home. She was worked for a number of editorial publications, has
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Destino, meaning both “destination” and “destiny” in Spanish, portrays the perilous journey across Mexico of undocumented Central American migrants as they attempt to enter the United States in pursuit of a better life. An unprecedented wave of Central American migration to the U.S. began in the 1980’s – the consequence of bloody civil wars and relentless poverty. In a wandering odyssey, migrants travel by rail, relying on the network of freight trains inexorably lurching across Mexico.
