Doña Nolbia is 68 years old. She lives in El Panal, Porvenir,
Honduras. She is mother of 18 children. Four of them died when
they were young; two are now living in United States, 10 are
living in Honduras, even if some of them are planning to go
back to United States again. And about the last one, Pedro
Antonio, well known as Toño, Doña Nolbia has no information,
since he left to migrate to United States 18 years ago.
In Central America and particularly in Honduras, it is common to
have a family member disappeared in Mexico. Migrants from
Central America have to face many difficulties, while crossing
Mexico: travel as illegals on the top of a freight train; attacked
by robbers; kidnapped from organized crime, and forced to
work for them. Often, women are raped or sold to a brothel.
And many migrants died every day, because of the criminals, or
following down from the train, or because the coyote that they
paid, left them alone in the desert. These are migrants without
any document. The family never know what happened to them.
Or sometimes, these migrants, decided to stopped and start a
new life in Mexico. For different reasons, they stopped also the
communication with their family. But the memory of them, are
alive in the hearts of these mothers that are waiting for their
sons. Doña Nolbia is only one of the numerous mothers from
the poorest Country of Central America that started to look for
his disappeared son. Neither the Government of Honduras,
neither the one of Mexico, are able or want to give the answer
that these mothers are waiting for: “what happened to ours
sons? Where are they now?”. For these reason, since some years
ago, these mothers, with the helps of some NGO an
Awards Exhibition at the Gowansuloft, AFTH 2012, New York
Honorable Mention Artavita.
Finalist JM Cameron Award, 3rd Edition, 2012, category “Portrait”
Short list 2012 Lucie Foundation Scholarship
Exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery, Kuala Lampur, from the 2nd to the 17th of June 2012
Short list KL International Photoawards 2012, Kuala Lampur
Exhibition at the Michelle O’Connor Gallery, San Francisco, from March 3 to March 24, 2012
Finalist at the Gallery Photographica Competition 2012
1st prize, category “Children”, no-professional photographer; at The Pollux, 3rd Edition
Honourable mention, category “Culture and Daily Life”, no-professional photographer, at The Pollux, 3rd Edition.
Exhibition of the photos by the WPGA in the “Worldwide Photographic Biennal Exhibition”, at the Borges Cultural Centre (Janaury - February 2012)
Mention at FOFUPhoto Challenge and exhibition of 1 photo during the FoFu Phot’art 2011
Finalist at “Primo Concorso Fotografico Geo”
Finalist at “Concorso Fotografico Aldo Nascimben 2011
Exhibition at the Spazi Bomben, Fondazione Studi Ricerche Benetton, Treviso – Italy (2011)
2011, ipa, int'l photography awards, honorable mention, category "Travel/Tourism"
Exhibition at the “Fuori Palazzo” festival 2011, Bassano del Grappa - Italy
Honourable mention of 2 photos at the Px3 Festival 2011
Finalist at the “Donkey Art Prize 2010” (exhibition of 1 photo in the Atlantic Gallery of New York)
Finalist in the short list of the “2010 Lucie Foundation Scholarship”
Honourable mention of 2 photos in the “Concorso Fotografico Aldo Nascimben 2010”
Exhibition at the Spazi Bomben, Fondazione Studi Ricerche Benetton, Treviso – Italy (2010)
Finalist at “Concorso Fotografico Comuni Italiani 2010”
