A Wake for Güereca
Artist
Dominic Bracco II
(American, born 1986)
Date2010
Mediumchromogenic print on paper
Dimensionssheet: 61 × 86.5 cm (24 × 34 1/16 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of the Artist
Object number2015.72
DescriptionA 15 year-old Juarez boy shot by U.S. Border Patrol.Label TextFamily and friends gather around the body of fifteen-year-old Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca, who was killed by a Border Patrol agent. According to eye-witnesses the shooting occurred after Guereca attempted to guide other teenagers into the United States before they were spotted and began retreating back to Mexico.
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