“People would tell me: ‘Well, we’ve kind of accepted, or, we’re used to being robbed and beaten and raped,’ ” photographer Michelle Frankfurter said.
“They’re willing to risk all that,” she said. “It sheds some light on just how bad things are in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.”
Between 2009 and 2014, Frankfurter took several trips to Mexico to document migrants’ journey from the country’s southern border to its northern one.
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“I kept thinking that I would see that wave taper off … and instead there was just this dramatic spike,” Frankfurter said. “It seems like a story that just keeps mutating in a way, but just keeps on going, and that there is no real end to it.”
Michelle Frankfurter is a photographer based in Maryland. You can follow her blog.
