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The Third Frontier

Leslie Searles

Thousands of Haitians fled to Brazil after the earthquake that struck the country in 2010.

Thousands of Haitians fled to Brazil after the earthquake that struck the country in 2010. Many were denied entrance and were detained at the border in Peru for months. 

The aim of the project was to explore the conditions of Haitians immigrants who were stranded for four months on the Peruvian border with Brazil while in search of their Brazilian dream. They set out on a long and expensive journey to Brazil, which had drawn some 4.500 Haitians until that time. 

The project began in Iñapari, a remote town located in the Peruvian part of the Amazon rainforest bordering on the Brazilian municipality of Assis, where more than 250 Haitians were stranded after the Brazilian Government restricted the entry of immigrants into the country.


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Leslie Searles

Peru

Leslie Searles has a degree in Media with a Major in Cinema, granted by Lima University and a degree in Photography conferred by The London College of Communication. She attended courses at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and at the International Center of Photography in New York. In 2006, she received a scholarship to participate in Reflexions Masterclass, photography seminar conducted by Giorgia Fiorio and Gabriel Bauret.

Leslie was part of the photographers staff of El Comercio newspaper in Lima Peru between 2009 and 2013. Currently, she is a freelance photographer collaborating mainly with non-governmental organizations like Save the Children, Onu, GIZ, AVSF, and others. She also collaborates with different media like Ojo Publico digital media, El Comercio newspaper, Poder Magazine, Private magazine and others.

She was runner-up in Photo España Ojo de Pez Human Values Award and she attended the transatlantic seminar in Costa Rica.

In 2013, she took part in the Latin American Contemporary Photography/Representations in Photo España. In 2014, she published the book Piruw with Musuk Nolte, which had an honorable mention in Poy Latam 2015 and was on the list of the 2014 Phonebook of the Year by Lensculture. She has exhibited in England, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela and Peru.


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