We're proud to announce the Spring photo exhibit of excerpts from "Family Matters" and images from Iguala, Mexico. We will show the exhibit in the 232 Horace Mann gallery, between Thompson and Horace Mann Halls, for the remainder of the spring semester. Adriana Zehbrauskas, a Brazilian photographer living in Mexico covered the 2014 disappearance and deaths of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College in Iguala, Mexico. The students had been on their way to a protest when their buses came under attack. She worked first on assignment for the New York Times and Buzzfeed and then on her own to document the villages where the students grew up and the bereaved families.
While photographing, she realized that most families had no photos of themselves, or their missing loved ones, and so she embarked on a portrait project Family Matters, where she set up a small studio in town squares and invited residents to pose.  She later distributed prints. “This project is a mix of things: it is intended to create memory and give a face to the people living in communities haunted by fear and lawlessness, abandonment and oblivion.”
Her camera was an iPhone and she published her stories on Instagram. In 2015, she received the Getty/Instagram grant to continue her work.  Municipal Mexican police in coordination with organized crime have been implicated in the murders.
You can see more of Adriana's work on her website, or on Instagram.
Photo Credit: Adriana Zebrauskas

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Published March 1, 2017