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Through dynamic visual storytelling, United Streets de América documents communities of color at the intersection of a public health crisis, racial reckoning, and ICE raids, empowered by solidarity.
In captivating photographs, Mateo Zapata pays homage to his hometown of Chicago and the essential workers and organizers striving for survival and a more just and equitable world.
Zapata weaves commentary and interviews, interspersed throughout the images, to record one of the most pivotal years in recent history: within these pages are joy and exhaustion, warm smiles and anxieties, masked faces and fists in the air. It is a celebration of unity between communities of color and the powerful potential therein. It is a reminder that hollow gestures of solidarity mean little without sincere action behind them—action that insists on, lifts up, and asserts the humanity in ourselves and in others.
A neighborhood photographer gives a voice to Latino essential workers during the pandemic: ‘We need to tell our own stories’
–Chicago Tribune
“For Mateo, moments that tell the story of a movement are meant to be captured in still photography. These black and white images document the truth of this era for people of color, something he finds too often unrepresented in mainstream media.”
–The creative brief, behind the lens: Mateo Zapata, Obama Presidental Center
Introduction
Black Lives Matter: Forever, Ever
Southside Solidarity: Discovering Black and Brown Unity
Los Essentials
Resisting the ICE Invasion