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Mariceu Erthal García's Photographs of The Traces of a Missing Woman

Mariceu Erthal García’s Photographs of The Traces of a Missing Woman

Mariceu Erthal García, a Mexican photographer who uses her lens to reflect on humanitarian issues. Her project Letters to Gemma sheds light on the violence and criminality in her country. She’s one of the five recipients of the Eugene Smith Grant 2020.

One day in 2011, Gemma Màvil, a girl in her late twenties, left her home in the Mexican city of Veracruz to get to a job interview. A few hours later, her father, Pedro Màvil, received a phone call: on the other end of the line, he heard the screams ...

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