I was interested in women who fought to break patterns and reject whatever society expected from them. I started to photograph this normalization of violence. Within excluded communities, women suffered from further exclusion. Every time I am out there photographing women, I think of them. Both of them decided to act against the violence they were going through. From the United States, she migrated to Mexico, to study anthropology. My mother also left home at the age of nineteen, running away from domestic violence. She reinvented herself and fought on her own. I grew up with women who also broke through that structure: a grandmother who had to flee her own country, at the age of nineteen, during the Spanish Civil War, never to see her parents again. That defines what you are going to look at and what your eyes will prioritize. Maya Goded: When you are out there taking photographs, you are also carrying around your own story.
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In Ciudad Juarez, I learned how to treat people very lovingly because you never know what others might be going through. It was very hard to see how the rest of the family and our environment treated her. Mayra Martell: I am the daughter of a single mother of two, who juggled two jobs. Marcela Turati: Maya, how did you discover and decide to explore violence against women? And Mayra, how did you decide to go deeper and explore the same issue in your hometown, having grown up in Ciudad Juárez? In this conversation, Goded and Martell speak with Mexican journalist Marcela Turati about their work portraying the violence suffered by women, how they deal with the pain they photograph, their hesitations and lessons learned, and the conflicts surrounding their lives in Mexico, a country where people continue to disappear-more than forty thousand in the past twelve years. In turn, Goded’s work has been, as she describes it herself, “exploring the subjects of female sexuality, prostitution, and gender violence in a society in which the role of women is narrowly defined and femininity is shrouded in myths of chastity, fragility, and motherhood.” Goded has done so by photographing sex workers in Mexico City and on the U.S.-Mexico border,Īfro-Mexican communities, and traditional Indigenous healers defending their territory. She has also documented those affected by other forms of violence, such as the mothers of people murdered by the Colombian Army or the everyday nature of drug culture in Sinaloa. Martell has worked her whole life-first in Juárez, her hometown, and then across Latin America-on the identities and vestiges of young women who are absent, yet present in the places they used to inhabit. Maya Goded and Mayra Martell are two Mexico City-based photographers who chronicle the stories of families whose daughters have been murdered or disappeared in Ciudad Juárez.
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