No parece que la fotografía haya dejado de causarnos una pulsión anímica ni abandonado la facultad de conmovernos cuando contemplamos las realidades y ficciones que en ella se contienen, sobre todo cuando dichas realidades y ficciones más que elevarnos el espirítu y sublimar nuestro estado de ánimo por su belleza estética nos perturban nuestra conciencia y nuestros sentimientos por su descarnada sinceridad.
Seguimos sin enfrentarnos a resolver las cuestiones que nos plantea la crisis de la migración a lo largo y ancho del mundo, seguimos sin querer analizar en profundidad su naturaleza y buscar una solución a sus causas: la pobreza, la violencia, la guerra, la desesperación y la desesperanza. Causas en las que quienes estamos del otro lado de la frontera hemos ayudado, por activa o por pasiva a crear, permitir y sostener.
El fotógrafo de Getty Images John Moore acaba de ganar el World Press Photo 2019 y ha ganado muchos premios de fotoperiodismo a lo largo de su carrera, aportando un alto nivel de habilidad, empatía, profesionalismo, perseverancia y un ojo asombroso para la belleza y el color a todo su trabajo. Moore ha pasado años trabajando a lo largo de la frontera México-Estados Unidos, y regularmente viaja a México y América Central, cubriendo los muchos temas que rodean la actual crisis de inmigración y especialmente el sueño de los Estados Unidos como un lugar mejor para las personas y sus hijos; los peligros del viaje del migrante; las persecuciones y arrestos en la frontera; las caras de aquellos que deciden defender la frontera y de aquellos que deciden arriesgarlo todo para cruzarla.
Hoy les presento una buena parte de su trabajo, para dar un contexto visual a la ahora famosa imagen de Moore de la niña llorando en la frontera, una colección de fotografías tomadas por Moore en los últimos dos años a lo largo de la frontera sur de los Estados Unidos, México, Guatemala, Honduras, y más países, que ha reunido en su libro Undocumented: Immigration and the Militarization of the United States-Mexico Border
Foto portada y fotos: del libro Undocumented: Immigration and the Militarization of the United States-Mexico Border de John Moore
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- SAN DIEGO, CA – APRIL 30: A U.S. Border Patrol agent takes a selfie at the U.S.-Mexico border fence on April 30, 2016 into San Diego, California. Five families, with some members living in Mexico and others in the United States, were permitted to meet and embrace for three minutes each at a door in the fence, which the U.S. Border Patrol opened to celebrate Mexican Children’s Day. It was only the third time the fence, which separates San Diego from Tijuana, had been opened for families to briefly reunite. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- ROMA, TX – AUGUST 16: Detained immigrants are led through the brush after being captured by U.S. Border Patrol agents on August 16, 2016 in Roma, Texas. Border security has become a main issue in the U.S. Presidential campaign, as Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump has promised to build a wall, at Mexico’s expense to fortify the U.S.-Mexico border. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- ROMA, TX – AUGUST 17: Immigrants from Central America remove the shoe laces from their shoes while being detained by U.S. Border Patrol on August 17, 2016 in Roma, Texas. Thousands of Central American families continue to cross the Rio Grande at the Texas-Mexico border, seeking asylum in the United States. Border security has become a major issue in the U.S. Presidential campaign. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- ROMA, TX – AUGUST 16: Illegal immigrants await transport to a detention center after being captured by U.S. Border Patrol agents on August 16, 2016 in Roma, Texas. Border security has become a main issue in the U.S. Presidential campaign, as Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump has promised to build a wall, at Mexico’s expense to fortify the U.S.-Mexico border. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- SULLIVAN CITY, TX – AUGUST 18: U.S. border agents take undocumented immigrants into custody after capturing them after they crossed Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas on August 18, 2016 near Sullivan City, Texas. Border security remains a major issue in the U.S. Presidential election. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- TIJUANA, MEXICO – SEPTEMBER 25: A couple holds hands while meeting loved ones through the U.S.-Mexico border fence on September 25, 2016 in Tijuana, Mexico. The U.S. Border Patrol opens the park on the American side in San Diego on weekends to meet through the fence with family and friends through the fence at Tijuana. The park is one of the few places on the 2,000-mile border where separated families are allowed to meet. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- JACAMBA HOT SPRINGS, CA – SEPTEMBER 26: The border fence stops at a hillside on the U.S.-Mexico border fence on September 26, 2016 in Jacamba Hot Springs, California. The border stretches almost 2,000 miles, much of remote areas, and fencing often stops due to geographical featues, such as hills and rivers. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- PIMA COUNTY, AZ – NOVEMBER 16: Civilian paramilitary volunteer James, 24, for Arizona Border Recon (AZBR), stands near the U.S.-Mexico border on November 16, 2016 in Pima County, Arizona. The college student said he felt it is his duty to help protect the nation’s borders. «There’s evil going on here,»he said. AZBR is made up mostly of former U.S. military servicemen, stages reconnaissance and surveillance operations against drug and human smugglers in remote border areas. The group claims up to 200 volunteers and does not consider itself a militia, but rather a group of citizens supplimenting U.S. Border Patrol efforts to control illegal border activity. With the election of Donald Trump as President, border security issues are a top national issue for the incoming Administration. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- FELICITY, CA – NOVEMBER 17: Mexico is seen over the U.S.-Mexico border fence at the Imperial Sand Dunes on November 17, 2016 near Felicity, California. The 15-foot border fence there, also known as the «floating fence,» sits atop the dunes and moves with the shifting sands. Border Patrol agents say they catch groups of illegal immigrants and drug smugglers crossing in from Mexico there daily, despite the forbidding terrain. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- LA GRULLA, TX – MARCH 15: A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), helicopter pilot searches for undocumented immigrants while flying a night patrol with night-vision goggles over the U.S.-Mexico border on March 15, 2017 near La Grulla, Texas. CBP announced that illegal crossings along the southwest border with Mexico dropped 40 percent during the month of February. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- ROMA, TX – MARCH 14: A group of undocumented immigrants wade across the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico border on March 14, 2017 in Roma, Texas. U.S. Border Patrol agents had intercepted them on the Texas side of the river and pushed them back into Mexico. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- ARTESIA, NM – AUGUST 02: A U.S. Border Patrol instructor yells at a new trainee run upon her initial arrival with fellow agents to the U.S. Border Patrol Academy on August 2, 2017 in Artesia, New Mexico. All new agents must complete a months-long training course at the New Mexico facility before assuming their posts at Border Patrol stations, mostly along the U.S.-Mexico border. President Trump has pledged to add an additional 5,000 agents to the existing Border Patrol force of more than 21,000 as part of his border security policy. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- SAN PEDRO SULA, HONDURAS – AUGUST 18: A girl looks from the modest yard of her family’s one-room home in an impoverished neighborhood on August 18, 2017 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Honduras, consistently ranked as one of the poorest nations in the Western Hemisphere, also has one of the highest murder rates in the world. The poverty and violence have driven immigration to the U.S., although the number of U.S.-bound immigrants has dropped greatly during the first months of the Trump Presidency. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- SAN PEDRO SULA, HONDURAS – AUGUST 20: Sonia Morales massages the back of her son Jose Issac Morales, 11, at the door of their one-room home on August 20, 2017 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The mother of three said that her son’s spinal deformation began at age four, but has never been able to afford the $6,000 surgery to correct his spinal condition. The boy’s father, Issac Morales, 30, said he tried to immigrate to the U.S. in 2016 to work and send money home but was picked up by U.S. Border Patrol officers in the Arizona desert and deported back to Honduras. Honduras is consistently ranked one of the poorest nations in the Western Hemisphere and has one of the highest murder rates in the world. The poverty and violence have driven immigration to the U.S. although the numbers of U.S.-bound immigrants has dropped greatly during the first months of the Trump Presidency. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- SAN PEDRO SULA, HONDURAS – AUGUST 19: Local Bario 18 gang leader «El Mortal», 18, poses for a photo on August 19, 2017 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. He said he has been a gang member since he was age 10. In Honduras, rival gangs including Barrio 18 and MS-13 tightly control territory, earning money from extortion and drug trafficking. San Pedro Sula has one of the highest rates in the world for violence and homocide rates, most of it gang-related, for a populace not at war. Poverty and violence have driven immigration to the United States, although the number of U.S.-bound immigrants has dropped during the first months of the Trump Presidency. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- MCALLEN, TX – FEBRUARY 21: U.S. Border Patrol agents question undocumented immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border fence while taking them into custody on February 21, 2018 near McAllen, Texas. A group of men, women and children from Central America were picked up after crossing the Rio Grande into Texas, seeking political asylum in the United States. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- MCALLEN, TX – FEBRUARY 22: Central American immigrants turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents on February 22, 2018 near McAllen, Texas. Thousands of Central American families continue to enter the U.S., most seeking political asylum from violence in their home countries. The Rio Grande Valley has the highest number of undocumented immigrant crossings and narcotics smuggling of the entire U.S.-Mexico border. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- MCALLEN, TX – FEBRUARY 23: A U.S. Border Patrol agent watches over a group of undocumented immigrants on February 23, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. The agents captured the group of Central American immigrants shortly after they rafted across the border from Mexico into Texas. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- MCALLEN, TX – JUNE 12: Central American asylum seekers wait as U.S. Border Patrol agents take groups of them into custody on June 12, 2018 near McAllen, Texas. The families were then sent to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) processing center for possible separation. U.S. border authorities are executing the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy towards undocumented immigrants. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions also said that domestic and gang violence in immigrants’ country of origin would no longer qualify them for political-asylum status. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- MISSION, TX – JUNE 12: U.S. Border Patrol agents take into custody a father and son from Honduras near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 near Mission, Texas. The asylum seekers were then sent to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) processing center for possible separation. U.S. border authorities are executing the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy towards undocumented immigrants. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions also said that domestic and gang violence in immigrants’ country of origin would no longer qualify them for political-asylum status. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- MISSION, TX – JUNE 12: An undocumented immigrant is given water by U.S. Border Patrol agents after she was aprehended in a sugarcane field near the U.S.-Mexico Border on June 12, 2018 near Mission, Texas. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is executing the Trump administration’s «zero tolerance» policy towards undocumented immigrants. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions also said that domestic and gang violence in immigrants’ country of origin would no longer qualify them for political asylum status. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- MCALLEN, TX – JUNE 12: A U.S. Border Patrol spotlight shines on a terrified mother and son from Honduras as they are found in the dark near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. The asylum seekers had rafted across the Rio Grande from Mexico and had become lost in the woods. They were then detained by Border Patrol agents and then sent to a processing center for possible separation. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is executing the Trump administration’s «zero tolerance» policy towards undocumented immigrants. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions also said that domestic and gang violence in immigrants’ country of origin would no longer qualify them for political asylum status. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- MCALLEN, TX – JUNE 12: A Honduran mother removes her two-year-old daughter’s shoe laces, as required by U.S. Border Patrol agents, after being detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. The asylum seekers had rafted across the Rio Grande from Mexico and were detained by federal authorities before being sent to a processing center for possible separation. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is executing the Trump administration’s «zero tolerance» policy towards undocumented immigrants. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions also said that domestic and gang violence in immigrants’ country of origin would no longer qualify them for political asylum status. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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- MCALLEN, TX – JUNE 12: A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. The asylum seekers had rafted across the Rio Grande from Mexico and were detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents before being sent to a processing center for possible separation. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is executing the Trump administration’s «zero tolerance» policy towards undocumented immigrants. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions also said that domestic and gang violence in immigrants’ country of origin would no longer qualify them for political asylum status. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
