San Quintin is a documentary project that examines the poor
living and working conditions of farmworkers in Mexico and
addresses pressing social issues such as poverty, health and
human rights violations. My intention is to denounce the
inhumane living conditions that the farmworkers endure as a
result of the miserable pay that they receive meanwhile the
corporations they work for make millions by the sweat of these
laborers’ brow.
In this day and age, many of us expect easy access to fresh
fruits and vegetables at reasonable prices all year round but
what we don’t think too much about is the human cost of what
it takes to meet our demands. Multinational corporations affirm
that their suppliers in developing countries have committed to
providing decent wages to their workers but the reality is that
the working and living conditions are generally appalling and
their human rights are constantly violated.
Griselda San Martin is a documentary photographer and visual journalist based in New York City and Tijuana, Mexico. She studied Business Administration at Esade Business School in Barcelona and graduated with an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2013. She has been photographing and documenting the U.S.-Mexico border for the past three years. In June 2015 she graduated from the the Photojournalism and Documentary photography program at the International Center of Photography in New York. Her documentary work explores transborder and transnational issues and focuses on concepts of identity and belonging in diasporic communities and ethnic minorities.
Awards She has received several scholarships to develop her projects, such as the Beverly Sears scholarship in Boulder, Colorado and the George and Joyce Moss Scholarship in New York She was awarded second place at the Gender and Justice competition held by the Supreme Court of Mexico, United Nations Women, United Nations Human Rights of Mexico and several other organizations in November 2014.
