Phoenix, Arizona, January 6th, 2021. Aya Iannon (left) and Ashley show off their guns at a rally to protest election results and show support for President Donald Trump at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on Jan. 6, 2021. ©Adriana Zehbrauskas/VII
Pijijiapan, Chiapas, Mexico, October 25, 2018. Members of the migrant caravan that left Honduras in mid-October pile up in the back of a truck as they leave the town of Pijijiapan, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, towards their next stop.©Adriana Zehbrauskas.
Kadugli, South Kordofan, Sudan, Oct 12, 2022. Graduation day at Taffari Community School in Taffari internally displaced persons camp, South Kordofan where learners enrolled under the Accelerated Learning Programme supported by UNICEF under the Educate A Child global programme will receive certificates before transitioning to formal schools. A total of 235 children and young people graduated at the ceremony. ©Adriana Zehbrauskas for UNICEF.
The last group of migrants run to cross the US border in Yuma a few minutes before the lift of Title 42 on Thursday May 11, 2023. Title 42, which lifted at midnight, had allowed the swift removal of migrants on public health grounds. While it was in force, migrants did not face penalties for trying to cross the border illegally multiple times. They often do so to try to increase their chances of staying in the United States, even if only temporarily. With the rule no longer in effect, migrants will once again face repercussions — a fine and jail time — if they are caught crossing the border illegally a second time. ©Adriana Zehbrauskas.
El Progreso, Honduras, July 1st, 2016. Gabriela, aged 13, is at home in El Progreso, Honduras, with her father, Pedro, and siblings Angel Gabriel, 12, Kaily, 7, and Valeria, 4. They were kidnapped by the Zetas in Mexico while attempting to reach their mother in the United States. The family was held hostage for 42 days and was released after their mother paid the ransom with all the money she had saved for their relocation. In 2016, I traveled to Honduras with UNICEF to work on a report about refugee and migrant children. The report focuses on the reasons they leave home, the dangers encountered on their journey, and the challenges they face while seeking refuge in the United States. ©Adriana Zehbrauskas for UNICEF.
San Pedro Sula, Honduras, June 8th, 2017. Members of a local street gang congregate inside their safehouse in an impoverished neighborhood of San Pedro Sula. As adversaries of the two main gangs, the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Barrio 18, their primary activities include protecting their neighborhood, engaging in small-scale drug trafficking (narcomenudeo), and working as hitmen. Gang violence, poverty, and inadequate political and socio-economic conditions continue to drive a significant number of Hondurans to seek asylum in the United States, as well as in other countries across Latin America and Europe. ©Adriana Zehbrauskas.
Ana Paula Albuquerque holds her son Danilo Miguel Pessoa da Silva, born with microcephaly due to the Zika virus in Recife, Brazil. ©Adriana Zehbrauskas.
Women wait to be seen by doctors at a community treatment centre for acute malnutrition in Aroma, Sudan on September 26, 2022. Primary healthcare facilities are at the heart of the community. There, pregnant women and new mothers receive their cash grants and benefit from a bundle of integrated services, from health and nutrition, sanitation to birth registration and protection. © Adriana Zehbrauskas for UNICEF.
Luna Sofia, 5, sits at the windowsill of her grandmother’s home Maria Oneide Barros Carvalho, 67. In 2019, a state law established that Vila Esperança is a “Traditional Land of the Babaçu Coconut Breakers.” © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
Chapada da Sindá, Piaui, Brazil, 8 de Agosto 2023. Marinalda Rodriguez da Silva, 42 (left) holds her grandson João Gabriel, 2 months old, while eating breakfast with her daughter, Dailandia Silva Oliveira, 17. Marinalda is part of the quebradeira’s movement and whose main activity is working with the coconut, but Dailandia is studying zootechnics. Her husband (Dailandia’s), like many young men in the region, is away working. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
São Paulo, Brazil, April 13th, 2021. Employees of the Vila Formosa Cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, carry the coffin of a Covid-19 victim to be buried. Burials happen non stop throughout the day and into the evenings from 6 to 10 pm everyday. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
Les Cayes,Haiti, Aug 19th, 2021. Earthquake victims wait in line for drinking water distributed by a local charity group outside a soccer field turned into a makeshift camp for survivors in Les Cayes, Haiti. The 7.2-magnitude earthquake that rocked southern Haiti on Aug. 14, killing 2,200 people, struck a country already in crisis, with few legitimately elected officials and a paralyzed, unpopular and underfunded caretaker administration. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
Tepito, Mexico City, Mexico,October 01, 2009. Dia de Waiting for the Santa Muerte monthly mass in Tepito, Tepito is the place the guide books warn you not to go, the place you can buy anything from a spider monkey to a bag of cocaine to an AK47. They call it the Barrio Bravo, the “Fierce Neighbourhood,” a soubri- quet it originally earned because of its defiance to outside authority, but which today alludes equally to its lawlessness and violence. Muggings and street fights occur every day, and no one even thinks of calling the police. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
Sisbichen, April 8th, 2018. Children play in a swimming pool in their family’s living room to escape the scorching heat outside in Sisbichen, Yucatan, Mexico. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
Canchungo Guinea Bissau, March 22nd, 2017. Children filing water buckets at the towns fountain. © Adriana Zehbrauskas for UNICEF.
Cap-Haitien Haiti, September 14, 2021. The public market along the coast in Cap-Haitien, Haiti. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
Firefighters/paramedics of Phoenix Fire Department Station 30, treat Alex Guerrero, who collapsed on the floor of his family trailer home, after feeling ill because of the heat in Phoenix, Arizona, on Saturday July15, 2023. He was working on a roof fixing an air-conditioner © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
On 29 March 2018 in Turkmenistan, Eziz, 28 (father) and Nazik, 23 (mother) at home during a celebration for their second child, Abdylguly, a baby boy born 26 March. Eziz arrives at the hospital with his close and extended family. He’s dressed in the obligatory dark suit and white shirt. His hair is slicked back as he drives into the hospital car park in a car covered in decorations, toys, banners and balloons. He rushes upstairs and waits as his baby is dressed in the white silk blankets. “I’m so proud to be a father for the second time. He’s my second son,” Eziz says proudly. “I haven’t slept for two weeks, I was so nervous. Now the baby has arrived we can celebrate and relax. This celebration is the father’s role. It creates memories that you can look back on in years to come.” Eziz is an entrepreneur and has his own textile company. “When I come back from work I’m always anxious to see my first baby. I rush into the home and my world shines again,” he said. “It’s stupid not to pay attention to children. Those fathers who are not involved didn’t get attention from their fathers, it’s a dangerous cycle. To rear a child with love and pay attention to their needs makes them more engaged in the world around them. Love is the key to bringing up children. When there isn’t love, children are brought up senseless,” said Eziz. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
On 29 March 2018 in Turkmenistan, Eziz, 28 (father) and Nazik, 23 (mother) prepare to leave the Maternity Unit, Mother and Child Health Centre in Ashgabat with their second child, Abdylguly, a baby boy born 26 March. Families get ready to leave the hospital, with mothers and babies changing into nice clothes. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
Nurses gather around a baby being weighed on a set of scales, at Lerdsin Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday 6 March 2018. © Adriana Zehbrauskas for UNICEF.
Woodbine Badette, 10 (on the left) in the pediatric tent at the MSF (Medicines Sans Frontieres) Cholera treatment Center in City Soleil, Haiti, on Saturday, November 12, 2022. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
El Pericon, Guerrero, Mexico, Jan 22th, 2015. A boy dressed as a dog in Xalpatlahuac, hometown of four of the missing students and one survivor. The village was preparing to celebrate its saint's day with parades and dances around town. Four months after 43 students from a teachers' college in the state of Guerrero went missing, much of the state is in turmoil. The Mexican government says that the students were detained by police in Iguala and handed over to a local drug gang, which murdered them. But the families of the students say they do not believe the government's story and hold out hope that the students are still alive. In solidarity, protestors led by students and teachers block highways, occupy government buildings and demand the opening of military installations. They warn that they will halt elections scheduled for June. Although the students' disappearance revealed the tight grip of organized crime in the state, the police and the military have failed to protect communities. So many of them have taken matters into their own hands and formed comunity police forces, run by armed volunteers. The number of these forces have multiplied and have become an alternative source of authority in rural areas. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
Tepito, Mexico City, October 31, 2010. A boy dressed as a devil plays table soccer in Tepito during Halloween. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
Cap-Haitien Haiti, September 14, 2021. According to a World Bank report from 2018, 93 percent of people (2.2 million households) in Haiti cook with solid fuels and some 80 percent of urban households use charcoal as their primary cooking fuel. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
Florence, Arizona, Brooke, 5, waits for his grandmother and takes a rest from the long lines to enter Donald Trump’s rally at Canyon Moon Ranch, in Florence, AZ on Jan 15th, 2021. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
Donald Trump supporters at the Save America rally at Canyon Moon Ranch in Florence, AZ on Jan 15th, 2021. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
Migrants wait in line to give themselves up to the Border Patrol in the Ciudad Juarez/El Paso border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Dec 15, 2022. More than 2,400 migrants crossed into the United States near El Paso daily over the weekend marking what officials have described as a “major surge in illegal crossings” in the region. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
Sierra Vista, Cochise County, Arizona, July 17, 2022. A car with smuggled undocumented migrant women from Mexico and Guatemala that was flagged and stopped during the Operation Safe Streets around Sierra Vista, Cochise County, Arizona. The migrants were asked to take off their camouflage attire, as well as belts and shoe laces and were detained by the Border Patrol. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
Supporters at the Donald Trump’s Save America rally in Prescott, Arizona on July 22, 2022. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
Huehuetonoc, Guerrero, Mexico, Dec 2015: Don Gerardo and his horse El Guero. He asked me if he could bring his horse to be photographed with him: “I want my grandson to know what a good friend I had.” Family Matters Series. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
Huehuetonoc, Guerrero, Mexico. "Family Matters" A portrait of the girls Elsi Meredith, Alma Aleli y Daila Gisele. I set up camp in front of the main church, with the little wifi direct printer. It was moving to see all the people coming over and asking to have their pictures taken. Rubi, their mom, said it was the first printed picture they ever owned. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
Huehuetonoc, Guerrero, Mexico. April, 2016. Gloria and her grandchildren, Gabriel and Lisanet. Family Matters Series. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
Huehuetonoc, Guerrero, Mexico. Maura and Anaclett, 5. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, September 20th, 2016: Alícia Isabela do Nascimento Martins was born two months premature, delivered by emergency cesarean section. She was hospitalized for 70 days, until her lungs could breathe on their own, her heart could beat steadily, and her body no longer needed a feeding tube. But doctors could not fix the brain damage she suffered when her mother was infected with Zika during pregnancy. Alícia, now nearly 18 months old, has microcephaly, rigid muscles, seizures, and problems with vision, breathing and swallowing. Raising such a baby would challenge anyone, but Alícia’s mother, Íris Adriane do Nascimento Santos, is practically a child herself. She gave birth at 14. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
until 7 June 2018] On 30 March 2018 in Turkmenistan, Mekan, 33 (father); Menzil, 31 (mother); Mengli, their third child and first girl, born 27 March (baby girl); Sulgun, 83 (great grandmother) at home in Goekdepe. Four generations live in Menzil’s family home including his 83 year old grandmother and his newborn son, now just three days old. “My eldest son is about to go to school. I always help him learn. He loves sport, gymnastics. Soon I will enrol them in Russian and English classes,” said Menzil. “I was away when my wife went into labour, otherwise I would’ve been in the waiting area. On the day of the birth, I came to my wife in the hospital and took the day off work. I had to go back to work today though, so I could not drive the car home myself, but it was still decorated.” © Adriana Zehbrauskas for UNICEF.
Savane Diane, Haiti, October 24, 2021. A young villager returning from Sunday mass in the Savane Diane project housing village. © Adriana Zehbrauskas.
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Adriana Zehbrauskas

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Adriana Zehbrauskas is a Brazilian documentary photographer based in Phoenix, Arizona. Her work focuses on issues related to migration, religion, human rights, climate change and underrepresented communities. She has worked in more than 20 countries and contributes regularly to The New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, The Guardian and UNICEF and her photographs have been featured in numerous international publications. She has received multiple awards for her work, including a Maria Moors Cabot Prize (Columbia University) for her “distinguished body of work  that has contributed to Inter­-American understanding”, a Robert Capa Gold Medal Citation (Overseas Press Club) for her Haiti coverage for The New York Times, the Anja Niedrienghaus Courage in Photojournalism Honorable Mention (IWMF) and a Getty Images Instagram Grant, among others. She has taught at the International Center of Photography (ICP-NY), the Foundry/VII Academy Photojournalism Workshop, the World Press Photo Masterclass Latin America and is currently the Howard G. Buffet Visiting Professor of Visual Journalism at Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

 

 

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