Vacia. Autoretrato con Luz (Mi mujer) en casa Taxco Guerrero, Mexico 2013. (my wife) & Me at home.Taxco Guerrero México. Guerrero is one of the Mexican States that have been most affected by organized crime; It is the second poorest and most violent state in the country. The condition of social and economic marginalization of Guerrero is becoming more evident. The crisis of the rule of law is increasingly alarming and forced disappearances are only one of the symptoms that prove it. In 2013, three of my brothers-in-law died. (They used to live in Iguala, the place from where the Ayotzinapa students disappeared). One of them was killed; the other two disappeared.) After these events I began documenting my family, and the families of other missing people, in order to capture in photographs the psychological and emotional breakdown caused by the loss of family members, especially for parents, children, and siblings. I am working with the concepts of pain, emptiness, absence, and forgetting.

In a symbolic way i tried to represent the absence of a missing brother.

The dark root.Itzel Martinez playing at her grandparents home in the comunity of Santiago Temixco, Guerrero Mexico

Remains of flowers that were in the van that transported us to the funeral of Javier Granda. in thr comunity of Santiago Temixco, Guerrero, Mexico

Itzel playing in the funeral of his uncle Javier Granda. Who Died at jail, he was 26 years old. At the police department of Iguala Guerrero. The police department declared that the cause of the death was suicide, but in his body he had marks of violence and injuries.