My mother’s cousin Modesta walks through her hacienda of burning sugarcane outside of Guayaquil, Ecuador, the country she never left and the home she built after much of her family migrated. The scene was reminiscent of the burning fields I often see on my way to teach photography in Belle Glade, Florida.

My mother’s cousin Modesta walks through her hacienda of burning sugarcane outside of Guayaquil, Ecuador, the country she never left and the home she built after much of her family migrated. The scene was reminiscent of the burning fields I often see on my way to teach photography in Belle Glade, Florida.

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