MICHELLE FRANKFURTER: Destino

Oaxaca, Mexico 2010
Photograph © Michelle Frankfurter

Home of Mercy Migrant Shelter, Arriaga, Chiapas, 2009
Photograph © Michelle Frankfurter

Hermanos en El Camino Migrant Shelter, Ixtepec, Oaxaca, 2009
Photograph © Michelle Frankfurter

Orizaba, Veracruz, 2010
Photograph © Michelle Frankfurter

Hermanos en El Camino Migrant Shelter, Ixtepec, Oaxaca, 2009
Photograph © Michelle Frankfurter

"Destino, meaning both "destination" and "destiny” in Spanish, is a selection of images from Photo-Eye 'Photographer's Showcase' artist Michelle Frankfurter portraying the perilous journey across Mexico of undocumented Central American migrants as they attempt to enter the United States in pursuit of a better life. The unprecedented wave of Central American migration to the U.S. began in the 1980s – the consequence of bloody civil wars, crippling economic policies and relentless poverty. In a wandering odyssey, migrants travel by rail, relying on the network of freight trains inexorably lurching across Mexico...Victimized both by global economic trade policies that make earning a living wage in their native countries impossible and by a broken immigration policy in the United States, these itinerant Central Americans represent the quintessential underdog." –Photographers Showcase, Photo-Eye

Photo-Eye's Interview with Michelle Frankfurter

Photographers Showcase Destino Portfolio