Corazón: from the Heart of Latin America
A Documentary Journey through Mexico, Central America, and the Andes
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My love affair with Latin America began with a bad map. I first traveled to Mexico in the late 60s, but only to the borderlands of Chihuahua and Sonora. My initial portal into that world was Sasabe, Arizona. Sasabe at that time was a tiny cowboy outpost with only a bare bones border crossing to El Sasabel, Sonora. It was way before the drug wars, the militarized border and nativist vigilantes on the American side, so the guy in the US customs shack just waved us through. On the Mexican side there was only a tiny wooden building with nobody in it. What the border people knew and we didn’t was that there was nothing beyond El Sasabel but cow paths and dirt jeep tracks that went out into the desert. They all thought that we’d hang around El Sasabel for a while and come back. But we didn’t.
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W.R. Stanton spent the early 1970s hitchiking, taking buses, and riding atop trains and trucks through Mexico, Central America, and the Andes, seeking to experience more of the native culture he had fallen in love with during an earlier trip to Mexico. Almost twenty years later, as a professional photographer and filmmaker, he returned to Latin America to photograph what made his original experiences there so life-transforming: the people. Now, after a long career as a successful photographer and filmmaker, he has focused his efforts on creating a book that features the photos he took and the experiences he enjoyed working and traveling in the region over four decades. As the story of his early travels in the 1970s unfolds, it becomes clear that young people from all around the world were on a similar journey. This was a time when young people felt safe hitchhiking or traveling however they wanted—as long as they had a backpack and a little cash. Stanton’s story and photos offer a window into what it was like to live in that more innocent time.
About the Author
W.R. Stanton, a writer, photographer, and filmmaker, is the founder and creative force behind Main Point Productions, which produces visual media on film, video, CD, and DVD for clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small nonprofits. He’s focused on subjects such as drug addiction, the impact of war, and environmental issues. He lives in Oley, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Nancy.