The women’s prison is more than the place where society hides its errors. The prison warehouses hundreds of stories of abandonment, abuse, and unconditional love; stories echoed by woman after woman.

Over several years, Federico Gama documented the lives of cholos in Mexico City, a community descended from the Chicanos which embodies, like no other, the cross cultural fusion that distinguishes North America.

What does it mean to be a woman? Moya Goded’s career has, in part, been a search for an answer. She looked not among virgins or maternal figures, but among the broken exponents of a gender that is accustomed to enduring.

From mountains, planes, and rooftops, Pablo López Luz has diligently photographed the overwhelming and chaotic growth of Mexico City. The result is “Terrazzo,” a revealing work—close and distant at the same time.

Mexico City faces tremendous water challenges—overexploitation of groundwater, poor water quality, subsidence, flooding, inadequate wastewater treatment, and health concerns about the reuse of wastewater in agriculture.

Adriana Lestido spent three years documenting the lives of four mothers and their daughters, entering the intimate, sacred space of their relationships. The work uses the tools of photojournalism, but is ultimately closer to art and poetry.

Jorge Saenz shows a rarely seen face of Buenos Aires with his images of the Southern Waterfront Ecological Reserve, in which has been dumped the rubble from the demolition of entire blocks of the historic district.

Natalia Ferreyra lives in Hidden City, a slum of Buenos Aires. There, a photography workshop, taught by the nonprofit organization Ph15, supports the use of art to understand and rewrite that world.

The inhabitants of a neighborhood in Buenos Aires claim that the presence of an electrical substation has caused the deaths of more than a hundred residents and serious illness for as many more.

The series of images, presented here in Nuestra Mirada, by member of the photography cooperative Sub is an exploration of the spiritual and physical margins of greater Buenos Aires, areas that suffer from ills common to all big cities in Latin America.

Gaby Messina photographed older, middle-class women revealing something profound about the society to which they belong: dreams, obsessions, fear, and loneliness.