David Maung Captures Homeless Deportees on Film Kinsee Morlan - San Diego City Beat
go to original April 28, 2014

Avimael, “El Cocho,” and his girlfriend Marta Gomez, 42, sit inside their ñongo, which Cocho dug alongside the Tijuana River canal. (David Maung)

Photojournalist David Maung walks CityBeat through a row of his large-scale photographs hanging through May 25 in the Pastillo de la Fotografia, a hallway-turned-gallery near the box office at Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT).

The exhibition, Faint Light: Yesterday's Gone and Tomorrow Has Yet to Arrive, focuses on homeless deportees in Tijuana and Mexicali, many of whom are part of the swelling population of destitute people carving out living quarters in the Tijuana River's concrete riverbed and the miles of storm drains leading to it.

"There's the canal right there," Maung says, pointing out the hallway's eastern doorway. "It's really close, and yet it's really far away, isn't it? See that tent? That's probably been there for not even a week... The population is growing incredibly fast."

Maung has lived in Tijuana for 18 years and makes a living as a freelance photographer for The Washington Post, VICE and other media. He first photographed people living in the Tijuana riverbed a decade ago.

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David Maung (Kinsee Morlan)

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