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Juarez, City of Missing Women |
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Statement: Most Americans are unaware that for more than fourteen years, the Mexican city Juárez, located just across the border from El Paso, Texas has been the center of an epidemic of horrific crimes against women and girls. Since 1993, more than 450 young women, many of them workers at U.S. and foreign assembly plants, have been murdered in this tough Mexican-border factory city. Hundreds more women have disappeared. The victims are kidnapped, raped, and mutilated before being killed, their bodies then dumped in the dusty fields in the surrounding desert areas of the city. Photographer Timothy Fadek and reporter Jan Christoph Wiechmann explore the cultural, political and criminal forces that created the fearful and murderous environment in Juárez. |
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About the Photographer: Timothy Fadek is a native New Yorker, born to immigrant parents from Poland and Scotland. He has photographed conflicts in Iraq, Lebanon, Kosovo, Macedonia, Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Haiti, the 9/11 attack in New York and regularly covers politics and social issues. Tim has worked on assignment for Time, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, and Stern, among others. He has won a number of awards, including Pictures of the Year (POY) and the NPPA Year in Pictures.
About the reporter: Jan Christoph Wiechmann is a U.S. correspondent for the German magazine Stern. Since 2003, he has covered U.S. politics and Latin American affairs. Prior to that he was Stern's correspondent in Berlin. Jan won Germany’s most prestigious journalistic award, the Egon-Erwin-Kisch-Preis in 2002 in the category Best Feature Story. Jan lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children.
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The photography series is curated by Song Chong |
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Previous exhibitions at The Half King For further information on these exhibits, please go here.
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