ASU Media Fellowship Immigration: The Southwest Border
     

THE BUFFETT PROJECT: CHILDREN OF THE BORDERLANDS

A team of five photojournalism students from ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication traveled to the Borderlands to produce a photo essay on the region's children. The photos featured on this site were taken by ASU student Jeremiah Armenta. The project was funded by The Howard G. Buffett Foundation.

Photo Essay

ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER: Jeremiah Armenta, 25, served in the U.S. Air Force for four years before coming to ASU to study photography. Now a senior in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, he has worked for the ASU student newspaper and interned at the Arizona Republic.

Jeremiah went to the poorest sections of San Luis, Mexico, just south of Yuma, Ariz., where he found children who lived in cardboard shacks on the edge of a dump and others, almost equally impoverished, who help support their families by getting up at 4:30 a.m. to work the fields before going to school.

Launch Photo Essay

 

 

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