Erika P. Rodriguez

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Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico

Nationality: Puerto Rican

Biography: Erika P. Rodríguez is a photographer based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. My personal work meditates on the fragility of the island’s collective memory and the implicit tension present by the lack of our political identity. Being... MORE

Awards

"We are spectators of our history"

erika p. rodriguez

Jul 22, 2016

My work was featured in theÂ New York Times' Lens Blog.

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A Sad Homecoming to Puerto Rico's Economic Crisis

"Last month, she was watching the congressional discussions on C-Span when the fiscal control board, known by its acronym as Promesa, or promise, was approved in a flurry of yeas. Ms. Rodríguez said she became so anxious as the votes were being cast that she had to call a friend.

"I don't know what hurts the most " all the cuts that are coming or that we are spectators of our history without being able to do anything," she said, a catch in her voice as she fought tears. "We have no voice. That hurts a lot."

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Media

For The NY Times: Amanda Serrano, They Can Fight by Men’s Rules

Erika P. Rodriguez / Puerto Rico

Oct 26, 2023

Erika P. Rodriguez

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For The NY Times: Amanda Serrano, They Can Fight by Men’s Rules

For The Wall Street Journal: Discriminated N.Y. Teachers Collect Lawsuit Payment

For NY Times: Sam Bankman-Fried, A Crypto Emperor’s Vision

For The Wall Street Journal: Chef Wilo Benet

For Rolling Stone: Myke Towers

For The Washington Post: Justino Díaz

For El Nuevo Día: Bad Bunny Fans

For BuzzFeed: The Smithsonian's #MeToo Moment

For Wharton's Magazine: Their Oldest Living Alumni

For NYTimes: Power Outages in P.R.

For NY Times: Dayshalee Salamán makes the Olympics

For Billboard: Bad Bunny & Tommy Torres

For El Pai­s: Los nudos de la violencia de género en Puerto Rico

Featured in book: 'Latinx Photography in the U.S.'

For T Magazine: Zilia Sánchez

MoCP in Chicago: Behind the Lens

For Medium: After Hurricane Maria femicides in Puerto Rico doubled

For The NY Times: The Last Days of Cockfighting

Women Photograph: 2019 Year In Pictures

For NPR: The Days Of Legal Cockfighting Are Numbered

For Audubon: Puerto Rican Sharp-shinned Hawk After the Storm

For SF Chronicle: illyanna Maisonet's Food Column on Sausage

For NY Times: L.G.B.T.Q. Safe Spaces in Puerto Rico

[PR: IN/EX] Exhibition in Los Angeles

For El Pais: Los nudos de la violencia de género en Puerto Rico