This photo came up while looking for live shots of one of my favorite American hardcore punk groups, Drug Church. It’s from a photo series depicting Mexico’s drug wars. I thought it was a bit callus to pass over the information so I’m conjoining a punk rock news post and an sociopolitical art photography post, trying to think on my feet so to speak.
The photo depicts children in the orphanage, Casa Hogar Tres M’s in Guadalupe, a small town outside Ciudad, Juarez, notorious for drug war related violence. In Juarez alone, approximately 10,000 children have been orphaned since 2008 as a result of drug war violence. Many become street children. Others live with relatives and neighbors or are in the care of orphanage shelters and church-based organizations.
Check out the new Drug Church song, Donny Woods. The boys in Drug Church gave me an exclusive blurb for the news post. This song rules and the random, but very serious photo above is worth your attention too.
article by Charles Hastings
(via churchofself)
