Erased Faces

Adriana Mora, a Latina photojournalist born and raised in Los Angeles, journeys south to Chiapas, Mexico, in search of images to record on film. She finds a place in a small, indigenous village, where she becomes involved with a woman and the Zaptatista uprising of 1994. Erased Faces is a story about forbidden love set against the backdrop of a complicated war. Limón expertly drafts images of the racism, exploitation, and class division that plague the region and the lengths that the impoverished indigenous people take to break the yoke of universal opression that rests heavy on their shoulders.