https://www.alecegarra.com/work daily 1.0 2026-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc99e3e51496d2df8b2f298/1573502144544-90T3HUSOFP52U4B90LA3/0001_Cuba-1.jpg Personal Projects The LGBT community is part of the Cuban opening to the world, for much time the revolution used to pursuit them for being “a detour due to capitalism.” As I later find out, Homosexuals were sent to ‘reeducation’ camps where they were forced to perform jobs that would, in the words of Fidel Castro, “make them more manly.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc99e3e51496d2df8b2f298/1609253679257-UG61SJ1F2ZZS4JNOPXMA/0011_Torre11.JPG Personal Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc99e3e51496d2df8b2f298/1610660121521-Q58UJDZ4OQBTW6BO5JBV/0005_LongTerm_Cegarra06.JPG Personal Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc99e3e51496d2df8b2f298/1618249913566-VM7E2IEI7WWH195NA464/Sorte-1.jpg Personal Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc99e3e51496d2df8b2f298/1697731812241-J4NMNWE4NCVTHSVOSVUF/Migrants0001.JPG Personal Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc99e3e51496d2df8b2f298/1611346867241-3I6GW4H0LLL73BNAVTPA/cucapa-lgero.gif Personal Projects - 1982-2018 Cucapá, which means “People of water”, is a indigenous tribe who lives in the northwest of Mexico, the Cucapá have relied on fishing in the Colorado River and as a means of subsistence for generations, but in the last several decades that practice has been curtailed by water scarcity and government restrictions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc99e3e51496d2df8b2f298/1741303157994-VRUAVTBJP7UCZPX22UJM/Abuela+Exterior+1.jpg Personal Projects - Above: Leonor Cegarra is holding my uncle Javier in 1952. Caracas, Venezuela. I cannot recall the first time I looked at my grandparents' house; it always felt like a constant presence in my life, standing resilient amidst a country known for its lack of being constant. https://www.alecegarra.com/commissions daily 0.75 2026-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc99e3e51496d2df8b2f298/1573502536682-D1L8J746I0N97V9AAFIH/0001_Cuba-1.jpg Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc99e3e51496d2df8b2f298/1573505305872-MWUI45V72P2AZQM023LV/CAIN-1.jpg Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc99e3e51496d2df8b2f298/1573510789196-4YVK99GFFO43ZBQ4QARA/0005_Haiti-10.jpg Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc99e3e51496d2df8b2f298/1573526968703-E22GYLLFNTQH3AHOCOV6/0018_Protestas-18.jpg Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc99e3e51496d2df8b2f298/1606435397699-DKZUTHSVOZBISNG6XF6V/Buscadoras-1.jpg Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc99e3e51496d2df8b2f298/1641664280532-1BFOMHACIAR5UMTWGC23/Casa-1.jpg Commissions If You Sell ‘Oaxaca in a Bottle,’ What Happens to Oaxaca? Mezcal is soaring in popularity far from the agave fields in Mexico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc99e3e51496d2df8b2f298/1651672573302-APA3GRZO0KUAE14N27LK/ReynosaNY-15.jpg Commissions The Continued Calamity at the Border for The New Yorker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc99e3e51496d2df8b2f298/1651672083208-PJ7A6QD3OMSO5XBIIFSR/NYT_MOnterrey-14.jpg Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc99e3e51496d2df8b2f298/1651673106805-O4543QK2JLNMSO510MMG/MM9882_220303_2767.jpg Commissions Macaws have become a symbol of Caracas and a relief for their inhabitants, as the sun comes down, suddenly you can hear them from the distance as if it were an eternal spring, beautiful macaws flying under the perfect and warm skies of the city. People wait for them on their balconies and rooftops, making sounds with improvised maracas to attract them, they are welcomed with fruits and seeds as if they were small goddesses, for hundreds around the city, this is an expected daily visit that will alleviate the daily struggle of living in Caracas and for other, they are some kind of therapeutic animal, in either case, they are Caracas' beloved invaders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc99e3e51496d2df8b2f298/1685462265027-WLKUQZJH33DFDPIJWQ4P/Cegarra-1.jpg Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc99e3e51496d2df8b2f298/1712756994673-PFD34HG4U0OIO34QFI0C/Belmopan-1.jpg Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc99e3e51496d2df8b2f298/1641663264019-8WHJCW7O9BD3UFMWM334/bacalar+web-4.jpg Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc99e3e51496d2df8b2f298/1726757726934-WDC5SMEYY1TUL6Q9OSQW/CR-1-2.jpg Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc99e3e51496d2df8b2f298/1728832014185-M2P3QHLJX4LTTPYNWITY/MM9978_220831_04039.jpg Commissions https://www.alecegarra.com/about daily 0.75 2026-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc99e3e51496d2df8b2f298/4d615577-5c9a-4674-8d6f-f08e90380742/IMG_0708.jpg About Credit: Juan Ortega