Yeimy, 11 years old girld from El Salvador colored this photo. The sad sun in the middle of the photo was not originally there, she drew it and put a sad face on it, when I asked her why the sad face she replied: “The sun doesnt shine for us in here”. Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Photographer César Rodríguez. Artist Yeimy.
Josue Alejandro Salinas, a 10 years old kid from El salvador colore this photo. This is the makeshift school that was built inside the camp. The teachers were migrants themselves living in this camp. When Covid arrived, the school was closed and teachers would only give and check homework to the kids, no classes. Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Photographer César Rodríguez. Artist Josué Alejandro Salinas.
Perla, a 7 years old girl from Nicaragua colored this photo. Those are her mothers hands, she drew hearths because “My mothers hads always touches us with warmth and she always takes care of us”. Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Photographer César Rodríguez. Artist Perla
Sandra, a woman from Nicaragua colored this photo. This is a dirt hallway, when the photo was taken it was all covered in mud and people could barely walk to their tents. Sandra wrote “Reality exceeds fiction”. Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Photographer César Rodríguez. Artist Sandra Andrade
Mauricio, a 11 years old boy from Honduras colored this photo. In the photo, two migrants who became friends in the migrant camp, from Honduras and Nicaragua, play chess to pass the time. They had been in this camp for over a year. Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Photographer César Rodríguez. Artist Mauricio
Luis Angel Rosales, a 9 years old boy from Guatemala colored this photo. He told me that a ray of light is shinining on them. Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Photographer César Rodríguez. Artist Luis Angel Rosales
Jennifer Larios, from Honduras, colored this photo. Artist Jennifer Larios. Photographer César Rodríguez.
P. S. and Y. colored this photho, they are a family from Honduras. I met them a month after they arrived to the camp and a year later, I saw them again which is when they colored the photo. It was an emotional moment for their mother when she saw me she told me: “I am sad and happy, sad because when I saw you I realized we have been here for a year and we are still waiting, but a happy moment because I see that there are still people who care about us and are looking out for us, we are not forgotten”. Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Photographer César Rodríguez. Artists P. S. Y.
A migrant woman from Honduras colored this photo. She doesnt want to be identify by name. In this photo she wrote: I fee sad. I cant stand being here anymore in this place and in these conditions with my son. Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Photographer César Rodríguez. Artist Migrant woman from Honduras.
A migrant family from Honduras colored this photo. They preffered not to be identify because they fled their country fearing for their lives. Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Photographer César Rodríguez. Artist Migrant family from Honduras
Nahun Canales, a man from El Salvador, colored this photo. He told me that back home, he is a house painter and he likes to color, draw and paint. “I am going to paint this photo with detail, so people know what I can do” he tells me. Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Photographer César Rodríguez. Artist Nahun Canales
Vilma, a 56 years old woman from El Salvador colored this photo. In the photo she is carrying firewood with which she will cook. She is walking in deep mud and stumbled a couple of times. In the photo she wrote: I am sad because I have been here for more than a year, walking in this mud and fearing I will fall. I want to go to the United States. Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Photographer César Rodríguez. Artist Vilma
A mirant woman from Nicaragua colred this photo. She wants to remain anonymous. on the back of this photo she wrote: “It is sad to be here and with my other children, and being a single mother living in very difficult and risky situations. I don’t want to be here anymore, I would like to be with my brother in the United States. It’s been a long time to be in this place. Blessings. God is love” Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Photographer César Rodríguez. Artist Migrant woman from Nicaragua
Sandra, a 43 years old woman from El Salvador colored this photo. When Covid arrived to the city, the government state to fumigate the camp with chemicals. A cloud covered the whole camp. Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Photographer César Rodríguez. Artist Sandra
A young man from Nicaragua colored this photo, he wanted to remain anonymous. In this photo, a man chopps wood so they can cook with it, having no gas on electricty, firewood is their only way to make fire. Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Photographer César Rodríguez. Artist Young man from Nicaragua
A man from El Salvador colorized this photo. He does not want to be identified. He colored him and his friend who is a teacher from Venezuela. Artist, Man from El Salvador. Photographer César Rodríguez.
Sonia Margarita Gomez from El salvador colored this photo. In the photo, people are attending to mass. For people living here for more than a year, they had to make a normal life or what could resamble to it. Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Photographer César Rodríguez. Artist Sonia Margarita Gomez
A 9 years old migrant girl and her father colored this black and white photo while living inside a migrant camp. In this photo they are both doing homework, her father is helping her with school assignments. Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Photographer César Rodríguez.
