Seguimos Siendo Ayotzinapa

Focusing on the forced disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Teacher's College in Guerrero, Mexico - this work deals with the relationship between identification photos and cultural memory. Consisting of 43 portraits printed onto thermal paper which are manipulated through various heat applications in order to obscure and attempt to remove their depictions. While the images are altered, their depictions are never truly removed - traces of their faces are left identifiable.

thermal paper experimental process alternative process disappeared heat transfer exile collective memory latin american mexican lens-based archival photograph identification photos photography family photographs