Luis Antonio Rojas is an independent documentary photographer from Mexico City. He has a Civil Engineering degree at the Iberoamerican University, where he began photographing the urban fracture derived from the construction of the Santa Fe megaproject in the outskirts of Mexico City, which led to his first publication in the New York Times. Between 2015 and 2016 he worked as an assistant for several international photojournalists, including Brett Gundlock and Sebastien Van Malleghem. He currently holds a Wall Street Journal Scholarship for the Visual Journalism and Documentary Practice Program for the International Center of Photography in New York City.
2017 - Wall Street Journal Scholarship
Gerardo Carnona in a hill behind his land in Santa Fe, Mexico City, Mexico on August 29, 2017.The Carmona family lives in a rural microcosm in the middle of a concrete giant. They are the last peasants of Santa Fe, the neighborhood planned by the government in the 80s that represents progress and modernity in Mexico City. Gerardo, 42 years old and the youngest of nine, was the only child who stayed to live with his parents and work the farm. His property has accumulated debts of more than 7,000 dollars. But reality is unsustainable, he says. Three generations have lived from this land, but the cows and the earth no longer produce as they used to. Soon Gerardo will have to contrive another job, another way of living. The history of the Carmona family represents, a clash of visions and the contradictions of an economic liberalization that began to produce, in addition to benefits, a greater socio-economic and urban fracture. In many ways, it’s a metaphor for our global society.
The property of the Carmona family , Mexico City, on August 29, 2017. The Carmona family lives in a rural microcosm in the middle of a concrete giant. They are the last peasants of Santa Fe, the neighborhood planned by the government in the 80s that represents progress and modernity in Mexico City. Gerardo, 42 years old and the youngest of nine, was the only child who stayed to live with his parents and work the farm. His property has accumulated debts of more than 7,000 dollars. But reality is unsustainable, he says. Three generations have lived from this land, but the cows and the earth no longer produce as they used to. Soon Gerardo will have to contrive another job, another way of living. The history of the Carmona family represents, a clash of visions and the contradictions of an economic liberalization that began to produce, in addition to benefits, a greater socio-economic and urban fracture. In many ways, it’s a metaphor for our global society.
Socorro Gutiérrez helps his son Gerardo to wash his hands, Mexico City, on August 31 2017. The Carmona family lives in a rural microcosm in the middle of a concrete giant. They are the last peasants of Santa Fe, the neighborhood planned by the government in the 80s that represents progress and modernity in Mexico City. Gerardo, 42 years old and the youngest of nine, was the only child who stayed to live with his parents and work the farm. His property has accumulated debts of more than 7,000 dollars. But reality is unsustainable, he says. Three generations have lived from this land, but the cows and the earth no longer produce as they used to. Soon Gerardo will have to contrive another job, another way of living. The history of the Carmona family represents, a clash of visions and the contradictions of an economic liberalization that began to produce, in addition to benefits, a greater socio-economic and urban fracture. In many ways, it’s a metaphor for our global society.