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 im…