ADRIANA ZEHBRAUSKAS – FAMILY MATTERS
2016-05-23According to Amnesty International, more than 27,000 people remain missing or disappeared in Mexico. In 2014 alone it reached 6000, a record. The real number is probably much higher; many cases go unreported for fear of retaliation and because of distrust in local and government authorities.
Working closely with the families of the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers School that went missing in September, 2014 in Iguala after being ambushed by the local police and handed over to a narco group, one thing became clear to me: not only had these familie’s future been stolen, but a memory of their past was also doomed to disappear. Apart from a few mugshots and cellphone images, very few of the Ayotzinapa families had pictures of their disappeared loved ones.
Exhibition runs through to June 6th, 2016
The Half King
505 West 23rd Street
New York
NY 10011
