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Book - Journey to the Center 

Cristina De Middel 

"Since 2015, when I started the project, I've met migrants at various stages of their journey, traveled with them on the train they call the Beast, interviewed hitmen (sicarios) and smugglers (coyotes). I also researched landscapes and iconography to present the setting of this adventure, Mexico, as the fascinating, immense and extreme country that it is."

Cristina De Middel presents the migratory route through Mexico as a heroic journey: without denying the violence and dangers faced by migrants, she constructs a sublime epic overturning stereotypes. Combining her staged images tinged with magical... 

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MEXICO. Yucatán. Sunday, February 7, 2021. A road heading to... 

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The entrance to a cave in Cacahuamilpa (Guerrero, Mexico). The... 

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The volcano Popocatepetl is one of the 14 active volcanoes in... 

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MEXICO. Mexico City. Saturday, April 10, 2021. A detail fo a... 

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MEXICO. Chihuahua. Ciudad Juárez. Friday, April 2, 2021. The... 

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MEXICO. Caborca. Sonora. Thursday, May 6, 2021. Detail of a migrant’s... 

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MEXICO. Michoacán. Pátzcuaro. Saturday, November 2, 2019. A detail... 

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MEXICO. Mexico City. Wednesday, March 24, 2021. Blocks of frozen... 

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MEXICO. Colima. Friday, January 18, 2019. A dog looking at its... 

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MEXICO. Sonora. Caborca. Friday, February 19, 2021. The distance... 

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MEXICO. Estado de Mexico. Saturday, July 14, 2018. A horse poses... 

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MEXICO. Puebla. Atlixco. Friday, January 18, 2019. A welcome... 

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MEXICO. Baja California. Tuesday, May 11, 2021. A road sign in... 

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MEXICO. Estado de Mexico. Saturday, July 14, 2018. A hole in... 

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MEXICO and USA. 2015-2022. From the Journey to the Center project.

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MEXICO. Guerrero. Caves of Cacahuamilca. Monday, March 4, 2019.... 

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The flowers of a recent burial start fading in a cemetery in... 

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MEXICO. Michoacán. Wednesday, July 18, 2018. A bassin filling... 

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MEXICO. Chiapas. Tapachula. Monday, August 24, 2020. Elas Diddhas,... 

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MEXICO. Oaxaca. San Isidro Roaguía. Tuesday, April 24, 2018.... 

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USA. California. Salton Sea. Wednesday, May 26, 2021. A minimal... 

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The official center of the world is in Felicity (California),... 

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MEXICO. Puebla. Xicotepec. Monday, May 17, 2021. The village... 

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MEXICO. Guadalajara. Wednesday, February 27, 2019. Imigrant takes... 

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Every year millions of Monarch butterflies (Danaus Plexxipus)... 

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MEXICO. Baja California. Tijuana. Wednesday, August 8, 2018.... 

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MEXICO. Michoacán. Pátzcuaro. Friday, March 25, 2016. Since 1993,... 

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USA. California. Felicity. Thursday, October 17, 2019. Detail... 

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MEXICO. Sonora. Hermosillo. Saturday, March 16, 2019. A detail... 

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MEXICO. Oaxaca. Sunday, October 27, 2019. A detail of the sulfuric... 

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USA. Arizona. Saturday, October 19, 2019. A detail of the border... 

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MEXICO. Sonora. Caborca. Thursday, May 13, 2021. A quinceañera... 

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USA. Los Angeles. California. Thursday, May 27, 2021. A plane... 

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MEXICO. Jalisco. Guadalajara. Wednesday, February 27, 2019. We... 

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MEXICO and USA. 2015-2022. From the Journey to the Center project.

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MEXICO. Tijuana. 2019. The "Zonkies" are a tourist attraction... 
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A group of migrants from Honduras in one of the wagons of La... 

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MEXICO. Guadalajara. Friday, March 1, 2019. Detail of the interior... 

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USA. Arizona. Tucson. Friday, January 11, 2019. A red thread... 

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MEXICO. Chiapas. Tapachula. Saturday, August 29, 2020. The price... 

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MEXICO. Veracruz. Guadalupe. Saturday, August 22, 2020. Las Patronas... 

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MEXICO. Veracruz. Saturday, August 22, 2020. The Patronas, an... 

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MEXICO. Sonora. Wednesday, May 5, 2021. Detail of a pink cactus... 

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MEXICO. Sonora. Hermosillo. Thursday, March 14, 2019. As a contemporary... 

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MEXICO. Baja California. Friday, February 19, 2021. The Pacific... 

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MEXICO and USA. 2015-2022. From the Journey to the Center project.

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MEXICO. Sonora. Hermosillo. Friday, March 15, 2019. A collection... 

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MEXICO. Sonora. Hermosillo. Friday, March 15, 2019. The lowest... 

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MEXICO. Sonora. Altar. Sunday, May 9, 2021. A dead cactus in... 

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MEXICO. Sonora. Caborca. Sunday, May 9, 2021. “Prevention Through... 

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MEXICO. Mexico City. Saturday, April 10, 2021. A man wears a... 

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A ceramic painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe in a Cemetery in... 

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MEXICO and USA. 2015-2022. From the Journey to the Center project.

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MEXICO. Oaxaca. Sunday, October 27, 2019. When crossing the desert,... 

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MEXICO. Chiapas. Tapachula. Tuesday, August 25, 2020. Noémie... 

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MEXICO. Sonora. Caborca. Wednesday, May 12, 2021. Next to the... 

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MEXICO. Baja California. Wednesday, February 17, 2021. An abandoned... 

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MEXICO. Chihuahua. Ciudad Juárez. Friday, April 2, 2021. One... 

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MEXICO. Oaxaca. Montealbán. Sunday, October 27, 2019. A young... 

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MEXICO. Michoacán. Santa Ana Chapitiro. Saturday, November 2,... 
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