Estrella has long, wavy, backward-facing hair. She tries to tame it with a thick-toothed comb in the back yard of her house between chickens, hammocks and looms. Relatives come and go around them. It’s November 2015 and Estrella is preparing for the annual festival called La Vela de las Auténticas Intrépidas Buscadoras del Peligro, or […]
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By David Dodge Photos from Bart Heynen When Bart Heynen showed up at the house of a family in Brooklyn that he wanted to photograph in 2015, his motifs were not quite finished. One father was busy ironing something and the other was cleaning the house, newborn son in his arms. The scene struck Mr. […]