Arlene Mejorado

Photographer
   
Sonora
Location: Los Angeles, California
Biography: Arlene Mejorado is a first-generation, transnational lens-based artist from Los Angeles, California working with analog and digital photography, video, and installations. She experiments with documentary practices, depicting truths that... MORE
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Sonora
Copyright Arlene Mejorado 2024
Updated Oct 2019
Location sonora
Topics mexico
Tierras y comunidades Yaquis en Tòrim y Pòtam del Municipio de Guaymas en Sonora, Mexico. 
Yaqui land and communities in Tòrim y Pòtam of the Guaymas Municipality in Sonora, Mexico.
2017

S O N O R A  is a story about a drying landscape where a quinceañera in a pink dress looks like a flower in the desert, where indigenous people survive ceremony in the face of violence, extraction, and neglect. It is also a conversation with my own spiritual connection to ancestral lands in Mexico. These photographs are part of a photo essay of an indigenous landscape and the Yaqui community in Tòrim, a rural town of about 770 people in Sonora, Mexico. Tòrim is one of many indigenous towns suffering a water and environmental crisis and I was lead to this town as a videgrapher for Tahila Mintz’ Woman of the Water, a documentary about indigenous women water protectors where I made footage of what their resistance looks like.
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