Credit: David Peinado Romero via Visura
Asset ID: VA118113
Caption: Available
Creator's Statement: Available
Copyright: © David Peinado Romero, 2025
Collection:
News
Personal
Location: Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Topics:
Documentary
Editorial
Journalism
Migration
News
Personal
Photography
“After the Fire” is a body of work documenting the tensions, acts of care, and quiet moments within the migrant experience at the U.S.-Mexico border. Through nighttime scenes, perilous journeys atop freight trains, small gestures amid danger, and silent crossings under floodlights, the series explores the threshold between visibility and invisibility, between waiting and movement. These images do not aim to dramatize suffering, but to reveal the human connections that endure in transit: a girl crying before entering the river, a woman shaping her eyebrows on La Bestia, a father carrying his son after detention, a family running through the brush to escape detection. The political is present, but it arrives through the personal. This work is an attempt to observe without intrusion, to narrate without distortion, to understand what happens after the fire—when the body keeps moving, when the story is still unfolding.