Biography:
Javier García holds degrees in Music (UNAM) and engineering (IPN). He took the Photography workshop of Casa del Lago (UNAM). He worked for the Imagenatina Agency in 1993 and has been working for other mexican media since 1994. He has also participated in archeological salvages of INAH. He currently works for the Milenio newspaper and the Milenio Semanal magazine.
He has received several honorable mentions in the 20th and 21st editions of the Anthropology Photography Contest and won 3rd prize in its 22nd edition. He has been selected to the Photojournalism Festival "Ciudad Gijon" in Oviedo, Spain; finalist of the 4th Latin American Contest of Children’s Rights of UNICEF in Panama City; Honorable Mention, 13th Latin American Contest of Documentary Photography "Los Trabajos y los Días" Colombia 2007.
Statement:
Building Walls
The community of the brick factory of Zoquiapan has 2,500 people. They work in the most primitive conditions one can imagine in these times of immense technological advancement, specially in great cities such as Mexico City.
Children, women and the elderly work for meager wages. They live in houses that belong to the owners of the same land where the mud for the bricks comes from, so when they stop working in the factory they are forced to move out from these houses, which are made from waste material and cardboard.
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