These photographs are presented as a transversal tour of a city well known in the global imagination: Ciudad Juárez. Shot in the years 2004 and 2005, these images, captured on 35-millimeter monochrome negative film, mark the beginning of the journey and practice of border photographer Jorge Arreola Barraza. They also constitute the origin of his photographic collection. Some of these photographs were part of the photographer's first exhibition at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the Autonomous University of Chihuahua in 2004. Now, with a new selection, they offer a new perspective from the archive and the recovery of this material, almost lost for more than 10 years.
PRELUDE Ciudad Juárez 2004-2005 engages in a dialogue with the transversality of time, not with the anachronistic meaning of the image. The eternity of the instant emerges from the ephemeral representation of the world, of the city, documented in photographs at that moment. The prelude to a situation that would change the imaginary of the border city. The images presented here deal with memory, the journey, and what the photographer captured in the span of time when the light reached the desert. A path to memory in the direction of documentary photography, which shows a city and a time, a place and the paths traveled in the prelude.