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I was born in El Paso and raised on green chile in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I spent ten years in New York City, earning an Urban Studies degree and helping to build The Indypendent, a community newspaper for which I coordinated photography and exhibitions. I moved to Los Angeles and focused on the US/Mexico border and the immigration that transforms both sides, traveling the length of the line from San Diego to Brownsville. I began publishing work on the Minuteman movement and border politics in Arizona and California through World Picture News . Other work in Los Angeles and San Diego was supported by California Council for the Humanities. I began working as much in video and sound as still image, and in 2008 earned a New Media masters degree from the Medill School of Journalism in Chicago. I interned at Time Magazine in Hong Kong and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel before spending 2009 in Madrid on a Fulbright Grant to photographically explore the power of immigration in modern Spain. I am a member of the National Press Photographers Association and Editorial Photographers, and a previous winner of the Puffin Foundation Emerging Artist grant and Newsweek and Lily Foundation scholarships for reporting. I am also a board member for the Impacto Foundation, which promotes hands-on media education in Central America. Please contact me to discuss any assignment.
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