These photographs were made in a red zone near the border between Mexico and the United States. This place, isolated by walls, cover the prostitutes to the rest of society.
Once very popular, today is an area rife with violence and anarchy that few people dare visit. Despite this decline, these women’s struggle to survive, keeps the red zone alive.
Maya Goded joined Magnum Photos as a Nominee in 2002.
She received the prestigious W. Eugene Smith Fund Award for “The Neighborhood of Solitude: Prostitutes of Mexico City,” a work documenting prostitutes in her hometown of La Merced, a downtown neighborhood of Mexico City. Goded, who worked on the project for five years, photographed prostitution in order to “speak about women: about inequality, transgression, about the body and sex, about maternity, childhood and old age, about beliefs, love and unloving.”
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