Without Water, Without Work: shanty_002sm

While trying to shelter from triple digit heat, Martín Hernandez Mena, 50, smokes a cigarette as he stands in the doorway of the home he built in the shantytown. Mena has lived for a year and a half in the canal bed. He moved after he could no longer afford rent in town because work was becoming more and more scarce.

While trying to shelter from triple digit heat, Martín Hernandez Mena, 50, smokes a cigarette as he stands in the doorway of the home he built in the shantytown. Mena has lived for a year and a half in the canal bed. He moved after he could no longer afford rent in town because work was becoming more and more scarce.