Over the past nine years Heriberto’s commitment to documenting social issues has drawn upon his own historical and cultural connections to his neighborhood. He has focused on recording the effects of gentrification by photographing "culture displacement†in the Pilsen neighborhood for a project tentatively titled The Place I Call Home.
His work seeks to capture why neighborhoods of America are facing displament. In The Place I Call Home, Heriberto photographs Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood a majority Mexican neighborhood. Over the course of 10 years approxamily 10,000 Hispanic families left the neighborhood. The answer to this question is complex. Gentrifiying neighborhoods to improve the progress of a certain community has it's cons. In this ongoing project Heriberto will explore wheter gentrification can have negetive consequences.