1. Michelle Frankfurter is a documentary photographer from Israel but currently resides in Maryland. She graduated from Syracuse University and has traveled all around the world. Her pictures have given us a new perspective of how life is lived in other parts of the world. These pictures have resulted in many awards but in 2012 she earned the Foto Evidence Award for her project named Destino. Destino was about Central American people migrating across Mexico.
2. Project Destino shows how these people from Central America struggle on a Journey for better opportunity in America. The process it takes to get to that point is rigorous. In these images the people are traveling on top of of a train, others are laying on the ground of a church, and people are waiting in a group around the railroad tracks, waiting for another ride to the next closest city to America. Their faces, clothes they are wearing, and the pure exhaustion show the struggle of a long journey to a better life for themselves and their family.
3. I found these images interesting because I recently was in Central America over Christmas break. I saw a lot of poverty, and a completely different type of lifestyle compared to what we are accustom to. While looking at these images I thought back to all the people that I had talked to that barely spoke english but had dreams of visiting or going to America at some point in their lives. I see the struggle but those dreams in these raw images. Frankfurter does a great job with the depth of each piece. She captures the moment of the pain and suffering these people are going through with intent of a better life. No matter how sad some of these images are, I can not help but to think about what is going on in each persons head and to look at the bright side and be happy they are on their journey towards their dream
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