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

Firefighters protest along with...mployees outside of Puerto Rico

Firefighters protest along with thousands of teachers, and other public employees outside of Puerto Rico

Luis Molina Reyes, 75, is parti... for his father. (Erika P. Rodr

Luis Molina Reyes, 75, is partially blind and has to be connected to an oxygen machine around the clock to assist his breathing. At the beginning of 2022 Casa Pueblo, a local community based non-profit, installed a solar power system in the house to ensure the electricity for the family who lives deep in the mountains of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. Power has become more unreliable in the past year as US-Canadian company, LUMA, took over the former public institution. In early April an island-wide power outage left millions in the darkness and Juan L. Molina Reyes, who helps care for his parents, still kept a power generator available at the home as a backup for his father. (Erika P. Rodr