The 1st 24-72 hours are the most crucial when it comes to a devastating earthquake like the one we had in Mexico City just a few days ago. As a human being, my first reaction was to help.
I helped to build a shelter near the Zocalo of Mexico City, by the first night we already had 12 people sleeping there, but as a Photographer I knew that something big was happening in my home town and it had to be documented.
I arrived to one of the most damaged areas, and suddenly decided to put on a "no-sadness" filter. I didn’t want to photograph tragedy, but heroism; people were putting their lives aside and putting themselves at risk to save others and that's what I wanted to capture.
It was incredible the mix of feelings in that area. On one hand we were in a situation where people were dying, but in the other, there were people waiting to get rescued and that made that ordinary people just volunteer to help. It is a feeling that I will never forget, and I want this feeling to transcend and this is why i made the series: #HéroesSinNombre or #NamelessHeroes
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Rescuers on the rubble searching and asking for silence
Civilians volunteering
Soldier with active emergency plan
Rescue team working in the collapse of the Condesa neighborhood
Woman asking for silence in the streets to listen to people trapped in the rubble
Volunteers of the Mexican Red Cross ready to enter the damaged area
Rescuer screaming into the rubble
Volunteer asking for silence in the streets to listen to people trapped in the rubble
The Mexican people are grateful for all the international aid
A girl giving love is her way of helping
