The Princess

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Photographer

Ada Trillo
Prize

Honorable Mention
Jury Top 5 Selection

Emanuele Cucuzza Fragments of beauty and happiness can be lived in every context, although hard and difficult... Seeing the world through children’s eyes is maybe the secret of this surprising and strong image. I'm curious about the future career of this photographer.
Company/Studios

Ada Trillo
Date of Photograph

November 2018
Technical Info

Nikon 810
Socials
Website

http://adatrillo.com

La Princesa, Tijuana, Mexico. November, 2018. I met Diana, 8 years old, on November 21st in Tijuana in the Benito Juarez shelter. The Benito Juarez shelter is now closed because of health issues the migrants are now scared in different shelters. Diana had been traveling with her family from Honduras. When they left home to join the caravan they only traveled with a backpack and relied on donations of clothes and shoes. That day the clothes donations came in and Diana managed to get the princess dress, despite the fact other girls wanted it.

Biography

Ada Trillo is a fine art photographer based in Philadelphia, PA, and Juarez, Mexico. Trillo holds degrees from the Istituto Marangoni in Milan and Drexel University in Philadelphia. Trillo’s work is concerned with human rights issues facing Latin and Central America. Trillo has documented human trafficing in Juarez, Mexico, La Bestia a group of Mexican freight trains that carries crops up to the United States where migrants ride on top, The migrant caravans of 2018 and 2020 attempting to reach the United States, and asylum seekers at the border under the remain in Mexico policy.
Awards

2020 First Place Tokyo International Foto AwardsGold in Editorial/Political 2019 Editors Pick Award Smithsonian Magazine Photo 06.20.19 2019 Second Place Silver-Star Award Editorial: Documentary 2019 Director’s Award Center for Fine Art Photography Fort Collings,Co 2019 First-Prize Lens on Latin America Exhibition 'Estrellas.' Philadelphia PA 2019 Juror’s Award Center for Fine Art Photography Fort Collings,Co 2019 Center for Emerging Visual Artist Fellowship 2018 Silver-Star Passion for Freedom “La Lova – Prostitute Ciudad Juarez”, London 2017 Leeway Foundation Art for Change Grant 2017 First Place/Best Series Black and White International Awards