Girl Coming Home to Suburb in Juarez from a Night Out in the City, 2009 Juarez has a very violent reputation. Located on the US/Mexico border, along major drug smuggling routes, Juarez was recently the epicenter of a years-long drug war that earned the city the title of “the most dangerous place on Earth.” But Cartagena challenges our assumptions of this border town by focusing his camera not on the violence, but on the suburban class that has been steadily growing for decades attracted to Juarez by good jobs.
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