Photography

To view more of my photography visit my visual portfolio at mariaesquinca.wordpress.com

Heavenly Bodies

A photo series that focuses around queer people of color.
https://mariaesquinca.wordpress.com/2019/07/14/heavenly-bodies/

Remezcla

“We Spoke to Young Protesters at Parkland, Florida, the Birthplace of March for Our Lives”

Miami New Times

“Miami Takes to the Streets During the Florida March for Black Women”

News 21

https://troubledwater.news21.com/colonias-on-the-border-struggle-with-decades-old-water-issues/

Phoenix New Times

Medium:

Self-published photo essay of the March for Our Lives in Parkland, Fl with statistics on gun violence taken from academic journals.https://medium.com/@meskinka/the-nra-the-march-for-our-lives-and-yet-another-school-shooting-c61816d4adaf

I think this march is important because its important to realize too before March For Our Lives there was Black Lives Matter, and police brutality, gun violence, state violence, issomething that has literally affected black and brown people since the institution of what-we-know-now as America,” said Tiffany Burks at the March for Our Lives in Parkland, Fl. Picture by Maria Esquinca.

_M4A7826 — Protestors attend the March for Our Lives in Parkland, Fl and walk towards Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Picture by Maria Esquinca.

Close to 1,000 people marched during the Florida March for Black Women. The event began at Booker T. Washington Senior High School, moved through the historically black neighborhood of Overtown, and ended in Wynwood before returning to the school. The event aimed to call attention to the oppression of black women and transwomen of color. Picture by Maria Esquinca.

A protestor attends the March for Black Women in Miami, Fl. Picture by Maria Esquinca

Christy Marie, from Tampa, Florida, attends the Florida March for Black Women. Picture by Maria Esquinca.

A road near Winchester Heights, a colonia outside the city limits of Wilcox, Arizona. Picture by Maria Esquinca.

“You get used to it. You work every day and come back really tired,” said Rosa Maria Peña about contaminated tap water in Tornillo, which has arsenic levels above the legal limit. Peña, who is seated on the right beside Lorena Hernandez, used to work as an assembly worker in nearby Wrangler plant before it shut down, while Hernandez is a seasonal pecan farmworker. Picture by Maria Esquinca.

“We can’t do anything,” said Lorena Hernandez 46, about having contaminated drinking water. She is seated besider her grandchild, Derrick Piñeda, 5. Picture by Maria Esquinca.