Griselda San Martin
Documentary Photography
ICP (International Center of Photography)
New York, NY, USA
Griselda San Martin is a Spanish documentary photographer and visual journalist based in New York City and Tijuana, Mexico. In June 2015 she graduated from the the Documentary photography program at the ICP in New York and also holds an an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Colorado (2013).
For the past five years she has been documenting the U.S.- Mexico border, staying most of the time in Tijuana, a community that has been a victim of Mexico's drug war and has been plagued by poverty, crime and violence. Her long term projects delve into issues of immigration, deportation, inequality and human rights violations. She is currently focusing on the Hispanic community in the United States, exploring the effects of the rising xenophobic political and social climate in vulnerable minorities such as the undocumented immigrants.
Her work explores transnational issues and focuses on concepts of identity and belonging. She is interested in in-depth stories that transcend borders and cultures and challenge popular assumptions and dominant media discourses.
Her work has appeared in publications such as The Washington Post, The New York Times Lens Blog, The New Republic, The Huffington Post and El País among others.
- Audio capture
- Breaking news
- Editorial
- Entertainment
- Environment
- Events
- Fashion
- Food
- Interview
- Landscape
- Portrait
- Video capture
- Video editing
- Catalan
- English
- Spanish
- French
- Italian
- Portuguese
The Door of Hope
Griselda San Martin
Gabriela Esparza reunites with her family -during 3 minutes- at the U.S.-Mexico border border wall in Playas de Tijuana. On this day, Gabriela was able to hug her mother for the first time in nine years.
The Wedding
Griselda San Martin
Pastor Jonathan Ibarra and wife Gladys Lopez at their wedding photoshoot in front of the the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Playas de Tijuana, Mexico. The border is a symbolic place for Ibarra and Lopez, who both grew up in California but now live in Tijuana separated from their whole family.