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.On View
Not on view
Cecil W. Stoughton
November 27 1962
