Here is the very best of the documentary tradition--the extraordinarily telling, and finely composed, powerfully arresting photography of a talented, sensitive, knowing observer and the summoning companion words of a master storyteller: such a gift to us all, such an education for us to receive gratefully, then consider with respect to its various lessons.
Robert Coles
Double Take
Orozco-Lang manages to photograph dire, absolute poverty with an artistic and perceptive eye that captures the sensitivity and hopeful spirit of the Dominican people. These are simply beautiful images of a people, trapped brilliantly and magically in time.
Professor Ramona Hernandez
Director, CUNY Dominican Studies Institute
These photographs reveal the true face of our country [the Dominican Republic]. They also denounce the real impoverishment of Latin America...despite which the people appear to be happy.
Felipe Alou,
Manager, San Francisco Giants
This book represents a wonderful body of work. The photographs are warm and joyful despite the diffifult living conditions of the families and children who inhabit the neighborhood.
Eelco Wolf
Former Executive Director, Magnum Photos
These photographs are a real tool of reflection on a certain reality of the Dominican Republic. By his social choice, his nearness to the people, and the generosity of his images, this young man positions himself directly in the center of the politico-social debate through his documentary photography.
Sebastiao Salgado
Photographer, Migrations
[Orozco-Lang's] compassionate art follows in the tradition of other great social photographers of our America Latina: Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Sebastio Salgado, and Tina Modotti, to name a few.
Julia Alvarez
A moving and revealing journey into the life and soul of a particular neighborhood of the Dominican Republic...These images are enlightening in their careful approach to their subject and especially in the optimistic potential that they bring to light.
Julian Zugazagoitia
Director, El Museo del Barrio
Orozco-Lang has experienced La Yaguita with an open heart and honest observations. The Yagueritos take him in as their equal and peer and mirror back to us acceptance and respect.
Shelby Lee Adams
Photographer, Appalachian Lives
Bio: Born In Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1974. ISAIAS OROZCO-LANG has traveled extensively in Latin America and the Caribbean. He currently lives in New York City.
Novelist/poet JULIA ALVAREZ, whose books include In the Name of Salome and Housekeeping, divides her time between Vermont and a farm-literacy project in the Dominican Republic.
