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Enter The Temple – documentary

Enter the Temple is a short documentary inspired by “At the Border with the Patron Saint of Transmutation” (Red Canary Magazine 2022) that focuses on Pastor Albert Rivera, founder of the Agape migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico.

At The Border

At The Border is a long-form written piece, photography and stand-alone video I did for Red Canary Magazine. The subject here is Pastor Albert Rivera who I first interviewed for another long story for Los Angeles Magazine in 2018, The…

Caravan

The Last Caravan: a holy death in Tijuana.

Santa Muerte’s scythe has hacked our collective humanity to shreds at the U.S., Mexico border. The treatment of Honduran refugees in Tijuana is a deadly blueprint for oppression and the measure of how far we have strayed.

Caravan

Notes From the Deluged Migrant Caravan in Tijuana

Here's my piece for the OC Weekly. It's black valentine to the journalists and photographers still there. It's asks for a little less money-shot fixation, a little more compassion. Sometimes, journalism is used as a shield. So you won't have…

Caravan

Caravan Kids Tear-Gassed by US Border Patrol [VIDEO]

border closing yesterday was political theatre. The notion that a couple hundred asylum seekers with hungry, barefoot children are a national security threat is not real.