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Javier Alvarez

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www.javieralvarezm.com/

SALUT MAMAN

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Location: Brooklyn

Nationality: Chilean

Biography: hola@javieralvarezm.com 1-303-746-0504 Brooklyn, NY / Santiago, Chile. Javier Álvarez is a Chilean documentary photographer focused on social issues. After pursuing a BFA in Photography, Javier worked as a freelance editorial and... MORE

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My parent's address Da...t I keep my strength and hope.

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My parent's address

Dad: Mouhamad SaMouhamad

Saïdou y Aïssatou from Guinea Conakry Labé Laria

My Account

Aïda Comarana

Good Morning, Mom, it's me,

Mouhamad Camarana.

Now I'm not good.

Say hi to everyone for me. Nobody helps me here, but I keep my strength and hope.

Country: Cote d'Ivoire...u, Mom, and I miss you. Kisses

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Country: Cote d'Ivoire

Facebook: Aventurier Kaita

I love you Mom

I miss you

Hey Mom, it's me, your son.

Abdoulaye Keita

I'm in Morocco

My health isn't that good, but I can hold it despite the suffering because you make me strong.

I love you, Mom, and I miss you.

Kisses

My facebook Pellon-Cond&ea... don't want to see us.

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My facebook

Pellon-Condé

Hello dear family, happy holidays!

There is some good news: I'm happy to finally be able to contact you.

Hopefully, God keeps sending good ones.

We have been suffering a lot in this country; nobody comes to help us. Things aren't good; we can't sleep or have any work. We don't have food.

People here in Morocco don't want to see us.

Honestly, everything is bad ov...k, housing, food, or anything.

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Honestly, everything is bad over here.

Address: My mom is in Guinea at the

Kabqck Motakang prefecture

Number 00224620575628

Hey, Fam, it's me. Your son Seikou Sylla.

I just wanted to tell you that I'm now in Morocco, but unfortunately, nothing works here. The problem is that there is no way to study, get clothes, work, housing, food, or anything.

Country: Guinea Conakry I love...mp;#39;t give up. Love you all

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Country: Guinea Conakry

I love you, Mom, take care.

your son,

Ibrahim

Hi mom

Here is your son, Ibrahim Barry, writing to you from Morocco.

I just wanted to tell you that I'm doing okay, but life is hard here. Conditions aren't the best, but I won't give up.

Love you all

Good morning, Mom and Dad, it&... and Fatoumata Gandega in Kayi

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Good morning, Mom and Dad, it's me, Ibrahim Cissé. I'm in Morocco. I'm fine, but there is no work here. Greetings to all the family
My parent's address is:
Mali's Mouhamed Cisse and Fatoumata Gandega in Kayi

&nbs...er here. Greetings to everyone

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Facebook Sanogo Bakari

Hi, my brother.
I'm your little brother Bacari; I'm in Morocco.
It's not good over here.
Greetings to everyone

&nbs... give up.  I love you

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Mali Bamako CISSE
Father: Draman Traoré

Hello mom, I'm your son Moussa.
Just to tell you that I am in Morocco.
Despite the suffering,

I don't give up.

I love you

Ibrahima Doumbia Country: Ivor...y God take care of you. Kisses

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Ibrahima Doumbia Country: Ivory Coast. I love you, mom.

Hello mom, I'm your son, Ibrahima Doumbia. I'm in Morocco. My health is good, but life is not easy here, but I endure. You make my strength. I love you, Mom.

I miss you.

May God take care of you.

Kisses

Hello, Mom, I am currently in ...that I'm fine luckily.

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Hello, Mom, I am currently in Casablanca, and I'm letting you know that I am feeling well.

Hello mom, I feel good. I am your son Alamby Reït
From Morocco
Just to let you know that I'm fine luckily.

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Public Story

SALUT MAMAN

Copyright Javier Alvarez 2024

Updated Apr 2020

Location Morocco

Topics Abandonment, Borders, Children, Dreams, Emotion, Family, Freedom, Friends + Family, Homelessness, Hope, Human Rights, Immigration, Migration, Mixed Medium, NGO, Parenting & Family, Photography, Portraiture, Poverty, Relationships, Reporting, Street, Teens, Youth

In April 2019, Moroccan border police forcibly expelled almost 200 West and Central African refugees from their northern border of Tangier and the Spanish enclave city of Ceuta. The authorities abandoned these groups in the port of Casablanca, stripped them of their belongings, and stranded them more than 300 km away from the Strait of Gibraltar.

These pictures result from a collaborative experience in which they expressed the state of their journey as embedded messages to their families due to their lack of connectivity, hoping to reach home someday. Mostly, all of them shared a common recipient: their mothers. Some addresses remained untraceable, and the rest were sent without proof of delivery.

Casablanca, 2019.

This project was made in collaboration with The Minority Globe.

11 postcards housed in a printed box.
10x15 cm.
Postcards printed in Offset, box on inkjet print.
Texts translated to English from French/Criole.

ISBN 979-8-89412-246-5

Self-published, 2024.
First edition of 50 copies.

Printed in New York.

7,354

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BRASIL Copa do Povo

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Jun 11, 2014 - Jun 17, 2014

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Dec 31, 1969 - Dec 31, 1969

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Javier Alvarez / Morocco

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Javier Alvarez / Valparaiso Chile

Feb 1, 2012 - Dec 31, 1969

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