Fausto Gonzalez Barrio, 1990-1998
12x18in image on 16x20in paper Gelatin Silver Print
Jack Lueders-Booth
Inherit the Land
What has been produced, over these years of unprecedented access to the garbage dumps, tarpaper shacks, barrios, jails, back alleys, and forbidding canyons of this unknown boarder, is a vast and comprehensive image bank of pictures the likes of which have rarely been seen. Few have had the chance to penetrate the daily lives of their subjects so completely as had Lueders-Booth. His cameras have lived among the people he photographs, he has picked trash with them, baptized their babies, played with their children while their mothers cook meals gleaned from the trash dumps in the hills. – Luis Alberto Urrea.
These photographs were taken between 1990 and 1998 in the barrio settlements that surround the landfills that are the municipal dumps of Tijuana, Mexico.
