honorable mention
Ada Trillo united states
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Immigration
"Ada Trillo brings you face to face with the reality of the migrant crisis at the border. Trillo’s perspective as an artist, mother, and Mexican American creates portraits probing the human cost of the Central American diaspora motivated by destabilized economies."
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entry description
In October 2018, I flew to Chiapas, Mexico, to begin my journey with a caravan of migrants headed for the United States, fleeing poverty, gang violence and crime in Central America. Over the course of several weeks, I traveled nearly 3,000 miles to the US border in Tijuana, documenting the caravan through photography and video. The caravan is more than a hotly debated political issue; it is primarily a humanitarian crisis affecting over 7,000 people - including nearly 3,000 children. The truth that I discovered was far different from the tweets of President Trump, which depict the caravan as an angry mob of gang members, terrorists, and rapists. Instead, I found compassionate and hard-working people banding together for a chance at a better life."Ada Trillo brings you face to face with the reality of the migrant crisis at the border. Trillo’s perspective as an artist, mother, and Mexican American creates portraits probing the human cost of the Central American diaspora motivated by destabilized economies."
about the photographer
Ada Trillo is a Philadelphia-based photographer, native to the Juarez-El Paso binational metroplex. In her work, she focuses on borders of inclusion and exclusion as they are experienced through people in sex trafficking, climate and violence-related international migration, and long-standing borders of race and class. Through the elements of documentary and fine art photography, Trillo lays bare our common humanity and dignity and brings attention to the impact borders have on exploited and marginalized people by amplifying their voices. Trillo’s work is in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She is the recipient of the Female In Focus 2020 best series award and was recently featured in The Guardian, Vogue, Smithsonian Magazine, and Mother Jones, among other publications. She has also been awarded The Me & Eve Grant with the Center of Photographic Arts in Santa Fe and received First Place in Editorial with the Tokyo International Foto Awards. Trillo has exhibited both nationally and internationally in New York City, Philadelphia, Luxembourg, England, Italy, and Germany. She holds degrees from the Istituto Marangoni in Milan and Drexel University in Philadelphia.back to gallery
